Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
AUGUSTUSAfter this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
More Augustus Quotes
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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 am a man of my word.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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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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Make haste cautiously.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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