Quotes from Ovid, Metamorphoses

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

And besides, we lovers fear everything

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.