If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUSI found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
More Augustus Quotes
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I am a man of my word.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Make haste cautiously.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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 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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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