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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit

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