When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
everything changes, nothing perishes
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.