'An adopted aphorism'
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e como era aphorismo adoptado e sempre posto em pratica por elle, posto que em circumstancias menos graves,
and, since it was an aphorism adopted and always put into practice by him, though in less grave circumstances,
Leôncio has a system, a cynic's maxim 'adoptado e sempre posto em pratica' — adopted and habitually practiced. The detail that he had used it before 'em circumstancias menos graves' shows this is a practiced manipulator's routine, not a one-off: he has long known how to master a woman's anger by refusing to meet it. The wisdom he lives by is contempt made method.
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