What is done well is done quickly enough.
AUGUSTUSDid I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
More Augustus Quotes
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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