We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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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Practice, the master of all things.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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I am a man of my word.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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