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.
AUGUSTUSWhat is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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