A sofist made the following 9 questions to the sage Thales of Miletus to confuse him, but the sage was up to the challenge and answered without hesitation and accurately.
1. What is the oldest?
God, because God always existed.
2- What is the most beautiful?
The Universe, because it is the creation of God
3- Which is the greatest of all things?
Space, because it contains all that was created.
4- What is the most consistent?
Hope, because it stays inside people after they had lost everything.
5- Which is the best of all things?
Virtue, because without it nothing good would exist.
6-What is the fastest of all things?
Thought, because in less than a minute it allows us to fly to the utmost of the Universe.
7- Which is the strongest of all things?
Necessity, because it is with what men faces all the dangers in life.
8- Which is the easiest of all things?
To give advise.
9-Which is the most difficult of all things?
To know yourself.
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