If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
AUGUSTUSIf 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Practice, the master of all things.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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I am a man of my word.
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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