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.
AUGUSTUSYoung men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
More Augustus Quotes
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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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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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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