Only that which is well done is quickly done.
AUGUSTUSThe tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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I am a man of my word.
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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Make haste cautiously.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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