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Only that which is well done is quickly done.

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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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Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
I am a man of my word.
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Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Hands Myself Part Play Praise Stage
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Death King Meet Myself
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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Citizenship Comfortable Live Management Planning Pleasure Survive Temporary Wife
Practice, the master of all things.
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Master One Liner Practice
Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Extraordinary Leadership Life One Liner
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Eternal Human Ourselves Survive Tale Voice
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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Authority Friendship Myself Office Position Time
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Cheer Eternal Heart Love Relationship Rome Yourself
What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Enough One Liner Quick
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Argument Change Citizenship Constitution Establishment Man Seek
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Name Ourselves Sand Wash Wave Writing
Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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One Liner Quick Well
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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Himself Listening Men Young

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

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