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.
AUGUSTUSIf you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
More Augustus Quotes
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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I am a man of my word.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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