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.
AUGUSTUSJust 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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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’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Make haste cautiously.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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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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I am a man of my word.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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