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.
AUGUSTUSIf 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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