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

Horace

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness

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

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