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.
AUGUSTUSPractice, the master of all things.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Make haste cautiously.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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