Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
AUGUSTUSJust 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Make haste cautiously.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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