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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse 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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue

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