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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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