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.
AUGUSTUSPractice, the master of all things.
More Augustus Quotes
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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