I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUSI’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
More Augustus Quotes
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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