"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]"
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Source: Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.280, University of Oklahoma Press
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