I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
AUGUSTUSDid I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
More Augustus Quotes
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Make haste cautiously.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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