If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
AUGUSTUSI came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
More Augustus Quotes
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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 found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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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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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; 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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