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.
AUGUSTUSTo seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Make haste cautiously.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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