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 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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I am a man of my word.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.
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