We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.