If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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 we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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