You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
AUGUSTUSQuintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
More Augustus Quotes
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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 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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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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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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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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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 you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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