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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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