If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUSEveryone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
More Augustus Quotes
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Make haste cautiously.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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I am a man of my word.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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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.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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