Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUSIf we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
More Augustus Quotes
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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