There was also a time in which I knew no Latin, but this I learned, without fear or suffering, by mere observation amid the caresses of my nursery and the jests of friends, smiling and playfully encouraging me. This I learned without any pressure of punishment to urge me on. For my heart urged me to give birth to its conceptions, which I could only do by learning words not of those who taught, but of those who talked with me; in whose ears also I gave birth to the thoughts, whatever I conceived. There