We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
AUGUSTUSAt 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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I am a man of my word.
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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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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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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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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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 came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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