If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUSTo seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
More Augustus Quotes
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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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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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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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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