Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
AUGUSTUSI’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
More Augustus Quotes
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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