Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
AUGUSTUSIf we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
More Augustus Quotes
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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I am a man of my word.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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 I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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