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Thales Of Miletus
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Thales of Miletus ($\text{c. 624 – c. 546 BCE}$) was an early Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer from Miletus in Ionia (modern-day Turkey). He is traditionally regarded as the first philosopher in the ancient Greek tradition and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Thales is credited with initiating the Ionian school of thought, which sought naturali…
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Wisdom Texts
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Didactic Prose and Aphorisms
The tradition of collecting pithy, memorable statements continued through figures like the Seven Sages of Greece (/entries/seven-sages-of-greece/). However, Roman philosophical schools (/entries/roman-philosophy/) formalized the genre into systematic treatises on ataraxia (/entries/ataraxia/) (imperturbability). The most influential, though now largely lost, was the Apophthegmata (/entries/apophthegmata/) of [Zeno of Citium](/entries/zeno-of-c…