To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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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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