The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

All I know is that I do not know anything