I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUSI came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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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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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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