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.
AUGUSTUSWhat is done well is done quickly enough.
More Augustus Quotes
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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.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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