Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
AUGUSTUSI came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
More Augustus Quotes
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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 came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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