Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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 found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I am a man of my word.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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