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.
AUGUSTUSAt 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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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 you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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.
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Make haste cautiously.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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