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.
AUGUSTUSIf we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
More Augustus Quotes
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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