Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
AUGUSTUSIf we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
More Augustus Quotes
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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