You must base the Wisdom on Love.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

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.