What is done well is done quickly enough.
AUGUSTUSJust 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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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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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Make haste cautiously.
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