I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUSI 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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.
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I am a man of my word.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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