It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: The Auctoritates Aristotelis was a popular florilegium composed around the end of the thirteenth century by the Franciscan scholar Johannes de Fonte.
