Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I am a man of my word.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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