Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
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