Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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 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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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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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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I am a man of my word.
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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