Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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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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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Make haste cautiously.
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