What is done well is done quickly enough.
AUGUSTUS
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
More Augustus Quotes
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Make haste cautiously.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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