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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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