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.
AUGUSTUSI 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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I am a man of my word.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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 came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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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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Make haste cautiously.
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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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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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