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.
AUGUSTUSEveryone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
More Augustus Quotes
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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