Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUSAfter this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
More Augustus Quotes
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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