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Diogenes Laërtius

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, “To know one’s self.” And what was easy, “To advise another.”

Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book I: “The Seven Sages.”

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