Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
I am a man of my word.
What is done well is done quickly enough.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Make haste cautiously.
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.