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Snares Quotes

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (2008). “The Prince (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.89

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.153, Indiana University Press

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

Martin Luther (1854). “Martin Luther's Spiritual Songs”, p.80

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1778). “The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem”, p.53

False as the fowler's artful snare.

Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.251