Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
Don't waste the opportunity.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.