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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human

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