I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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