To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
AUGUSTUSI found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
More Augustus Quotes
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Practice, the master of all things.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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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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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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