If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
AUGUSTUSYoung men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
More Augustus Quotes
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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 came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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 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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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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