What is done well is done quickly enough.
AUGUSTUS
AUGUSTUS
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
AugustusAugustus Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
AugustusAugustus Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AugustusAugustus I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AugustusAugustus Practice, the master of all things.
AugustusAugustus Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
AugustusAugustus Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
AugustusAugustus 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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Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi I dont give a Rats Ass in what others think. That is how I became successful
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Cillian MurphyCillian Murphy Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie when I thought I’d Run from, that’s when I saw him come quickest. He had never left to me quite that way before.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.
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Debbie FordDebbie Ford When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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