If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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 came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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