Practice, the master of all things.
AUGUSTUSWhat is done well is done quickly enough.
More Augustus Quotes
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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 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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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