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.
AUGUSTUSOnly that which is well done is quickly done.
More Augustus Quotes
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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 I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I am a man of my word.
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