To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
AUGUSTUSYoung men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
More Augustus Quotes
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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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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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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