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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

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