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Make haste cautiously.

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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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Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Cheer Eternal Heart Love Relationship Rome Yourself
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
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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Change Greatness Impediment Lying Mindset Ourselves Role Traditional Unconscious Visible
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
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Demand Empire Myself
I am a man of my word.
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Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Conquer Race Roman World
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Common Worth Yourself
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.
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Citizenship Survive 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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Practice, the master of all things.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Alive Farewell Marriage Ourselves Togetherness
Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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