Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I am a man of my word.
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