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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

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