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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?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference."”
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- Source:
- Thales. ix.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9478daaa0ef20cb1efb86248b6802daa328054713e2b7ef83e12db2d59bbf046
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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