What is done well is done quickly enough.

Make haste cautiously.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

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.

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.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.