I am a man of my word.
AUGUSTUSIf 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.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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