Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUSI found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
More Augustus Quotes
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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 you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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I am a man of my word.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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