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.
AUGUSTUSDid I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
More Augustus Quotes
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Make haste cautiously.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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