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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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