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.
AUGUSTUSHave I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
More Augustus Quotes
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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