I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUSTo seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
More Augustus Quotes
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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I am a man of my word.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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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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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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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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