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.
AUGUSTUSOnly that which is well done is quickly done.
More Augustus Quotes
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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