Ovid - Enemy Quotes

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He himself teaches what I should do; it is right to be taught by the enemy.

Ovid

The greater a man is, the more can his wrath be appeased; a noble spirit is capable of kindly impulses. For the noble lion 'tis enough to have overthrown his enemy; the fight is at an end when his foe is fallen. But the wolf, the ignoble bears harry the dying and so with every beast of less nobility. At Troy what have we mightier than brave Achilles? But the tears of the aged Dardanian he could not endure.

Ovid

It is right to learn, even from the enemy.

Ovid