If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUSWe write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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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Make haste cautiously.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I am a man of my word.
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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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