I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUSEveryone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
More Augustus Quotes
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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Make haste cautiously.
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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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