I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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I am a man of my word.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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.
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Make haste cautiously.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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