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.
AUGUSTUSNothing common can seem worthy of you.
More Augustus Quotes
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Make haste cautiously.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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I am a man of my word.
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