Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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