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.
AUGUSTUSIf I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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 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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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 came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Make haste cautiously.
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