Friday, November 11, 2016

Roman Senator Metellus Macedonius

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Metellus Macedonius (Senator of Rome from the 2nd century BCE)

"Fellow Romans, if we could make do without a wife, we would all be free of such a nuisance. But nature has ordained that we can't live easily with women or without them, so we must look to our long term needs rather than our short-term happiness."
  • From a speech given by  Metellus Macedonius to the senate of Rome in 131 BCE, recorded by Aulus Gellius in Attic Nights.
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