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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Enough One Liner Quick
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Common Worth Yourself
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Himself Listening Men Young
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Cheer Eternal Heart Love Relationship Rome Yourself
Make haste cautiously.
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Caution Haste One Liner
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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Citizenship Comfortable Live Management Planning Pleasure Survive Temporary Wife
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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Control Economics Family Financial Give Up Husband Men Responsibility Share
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Death King Meet Myself
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.
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Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
I am a man of my word.
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Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Death Life Myself Play Role
Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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One Liner Quick Well
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Better Boss Command Oneself
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Citizenship Survive Wife
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Conquer Race Roman World

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