Only that which is well done is quickly done.
AUGUSTUSI found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
More Augustus Quotes
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I am a man of my word.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Make haste cautiously.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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