Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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