The people of Miletus are not fools, but they do just the kind of things that fools do.

Fragment, quoted by Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 7, ch. 8, 1151a5. Fragment edited by Douglas E. Gerber, Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Mimnermus, Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC, LCL 258 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999) p. 404. Translated from Bekker's text of Aristotle by D. P. Chase, The Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle (Oxford: William Graham, 1847) p. 261