As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
Summer treads on heels of spring.