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.
AUGUSTUSQuintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
More Augustus Quotes
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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