John Skylitzes (Byzantine Historian, 1040-1101)
“Reading provokes recollection; recollection nourishes and expands memory, just as, quite the contrary, negligence and laziness provoke forgetfulness which darkens and confuses the memory of what has happened in the past.”
- From John Skylitzes’ A Synopsis of Byzantine History (811-1057) translated by John Wortley.
