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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.

Augustus

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.
AUGUSTUS

Authority Friendship Myself Office Position Time
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.
AUGUSTUS

Citizenship Comfortable Live Management Planning Pleasure Survive Temporary Wife
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.
AUGUSTUS

Agriculture City Courage Goodness Grain Mindset Myself People Politician Review
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.
AUGUSTUS

Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AUGUSTUS

Death King Meet Myself
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS

Brick Finding Inspirational Marble Myself Transformation
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUS

Citizenship Survive Wife
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
AUGUSTUS

Alive Farewell Marriage Ourselves Togetherness
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AUGUSTUS

Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
Only that which is well done is quickly done.
AUGUSTUS

One Liner Quick Well
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.
AUGUSTUS

Change Greatness Impediment Lying Mindset Ourselves Role Traditional Unconscious Visible
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.
AUGUSTUS

Control Economics Family Financial Give Up Husband Men Responsibility Share
If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
AUGUSTUS

Deal Inspirational One Liner Rain Rainbow
Practice, the master of all things.
AUGUSTUS

Master One Liner Practice
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUS

Hands Myself Part Play Praise Stage
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
AUGUSTUS

Conquer Race Roman World

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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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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