“It's right to learn, even from the enemy.”

“Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.”

“Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.”

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.But since, o gods, you were the source of thesebodies becoming other bodies, breatheyour breath into my book of changes: maythe song I sing be seamless as its wayweaves from the world's beginning to our day.”

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”