I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AUGUSTUSIf I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
More Augustus Quotes
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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