If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

I am a man of my word.

Practice, the master of all things.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

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.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.