Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
AUGUSTUSIf 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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