If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUSI 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
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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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I am a man of my word.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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