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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
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
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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

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