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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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