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Full Idea
Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.
Gist of Idea
Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything
Source
report of Thales (fragments/reports [c.585 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 01.2.9
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.19