Only that which is well done is quickly done.
AUGUSTUSNothing common can seem worthy of you.
More Augustus Quotes
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I am a man of my word.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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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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Make haste cautiously.
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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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