Only that which is well done is quickly done.
AUGUSTUS
AUGUSTUS
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
AugustusAugustus To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
AugustusAugustus If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
AugustusAugustus I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AugustusAugustus Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
AugustusAugustus Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
AugustusAugustus Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
AugustusAugustus I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AugustusAugustus I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AugustusAugustus Practice, the master of all things.
AugustusAugustus Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
AugustusAugustus 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.
AugustusAugustus If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AugustusAugustus
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