A man who does
not understand Latin is like one who walks
through a beautiful region in a fog; his
horizon is very close to him. He sees only
the nearest things clearly, and a few
steps away from him, the outlines of
everything become indistinct or wholy
lost. But the horizon of the Latin scholar
extends far and wide through the centuries
of modern history, Middle Ages and
antiquity. Arthur Schopenhauer |