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.
Augustus Caesar (63 BC - AD 14)
Source: Res Gestae
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Source: Suetonius
More haste, less speed. -Festina lente Also quoted as: Make haste slowly.
The play is over. Acta est fabula
Source: Last Words
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions! Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Source: Plutarch
Well done is quickly done.