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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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