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

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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