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• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, ix...
• When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, xix...
• When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, xiii
• When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Antisthenes, iv...
• Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, xiv...
• When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it.
  Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed....