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AUGUSTUSDid I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
More Augustus Quotes
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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 found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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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 you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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