If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
AUGUSTUSI had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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I am a man of my word.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Make haste cautiously.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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