Make haste cautiously.
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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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