If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUSNothing common can seem worthy of you.
More Augustus Quotes
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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