Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
AUGUSTUSI came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
More Augustus Quotes
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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 found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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I am a man of my word.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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