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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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