If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUSIf you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
More Augustus Quotes
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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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’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I am a man of my word.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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