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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.

Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
AUGUSTUS

Conquer Race Roman World
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
AUGUSTUS

Name Ourselves Sand Wash Wave Writing
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
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
AUGUSTUS

Eternal Human Ourselves Survive Tale Voice
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AUGUSTUS

Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUS

Citizenship Survive Wife
Make haste cautiously.
AUGUSTUS

Caution Haste One Liner
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
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
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
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS

Brick Finding Inspirational Marble Myself Transformation
Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
AUGUSTUS

Extraordinary Leadership Life One Liner
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
Practice, the master of all things.
AUGUSTUS

Master One Liner Practice
I am a man of my word.
AUGUSTUS

Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AUGUSTUS

Death King Meet Myself

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