14 ideas
| 8766 | In much wisdom is much grief [Anon (Ecc)] |
| 1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
| 7494 | Laughter is mad; of mirth, what doeth it? [Anon (Ecc)] |
| 8767 | Sorrow is better than laughter [Anon (Ecc)] |
| 3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 8765 | All is vanity, saith the Preacher [Anon (Ecc)] |
| 23601 | Leaders can only attack foreigners who have done wrong (as with their own subjects) [Vitoria] |
| 23569 | The only just cause for a war is a wrong received [Vitoria] |
| 23566 | Princes should not justify a war to their subjects, and doing so would undermine the state [Vitoria] |
| 23576 | Sacking a city is lawful if it motivates the attacking troops [Vitoria] |
| 8768 | Books are endless, and study is wearisome [Anon (Ecc)] |
| 1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
| 1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
| 1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |