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Augustus Quote - What is done well is done quickly enough.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

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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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Citizenship Comfortable Live Management Planning Pleasure Survive Temporary Wife
Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Extraordinary Leadership Life One Liner
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Alive Farewell Marriage Ourselves Togetherness
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
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
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Demand Empire Myself
What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Enough One Liner Quick
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
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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Control Economics Family Financial Give Up Husband Men Responsibility Share
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Common Worth Yourself
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Brick Finding Inspirational Marble Myself Transformation
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Conquer Race Roman World
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
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
I am a man of my word.
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Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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One Liner Quick Well
Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Death End Existence Myself Play Praise
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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Agriculture City Courage Goodness Grain Mindset Myself People Politician Review
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Better Boss Command Oneself
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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Change Greatness Impediment Lying Mindset Ourselves Role Traditional Unconscious Visible
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Citizenship Survive Wife
Practice, the master of all things.
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Master One Liner Practice
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Death King Meet Myself
If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Deal Inspirational One Liner Rain Rainbow
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Eternal Human Ourselves Survive Tale Voice
Make haste cautiously.
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Caution Haste One Liner
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Himself Listening Men Young

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