From the egg to the apple.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Tear thyself from delay.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.