"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste."
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Source: Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions
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