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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

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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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Citizenship Survive Wife
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Eternal Human Ourselves Survive Tale Voice
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
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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Citizenship Comfortable Live Management Planning Pleasure Survive Temporary Wife
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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Agriculture City Courage Goodness Grain Mindset Myself People Politician Review
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Himself Listening Men Young
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Hands Myself Part Play Praise Stage
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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Control Economics Family Financial Give Up Husband Men Responsibility Share
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Alive Farewell Marriage Ourselves Togetherness
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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Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
Make haste cautiously.
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Caution Haste One Liner
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Death King Meet Myself
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Cheer Eternal Heart Love Relationship Rome Yourself
Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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