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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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness

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