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.
AUGUSTUSIf I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
More Augustus Quotes
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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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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