The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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