Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
AUGUSTUS
I am a man of my word.
More Augustus Quotes
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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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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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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Make haste cautiously.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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