Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
AUGUSTUSI found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
More Augustus Quotes
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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 found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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