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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise

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