If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUSBehold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
More Augustus Quotes
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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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