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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

Juvenal

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENAL

Crime Crown Different Result
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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