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.
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.
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Make haste cautiously.
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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.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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