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
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.89
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.119, Zondervan
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
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
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