Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUSBetter a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
More Augustus Quotes
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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