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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense

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