Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
AUGUSTUSTo seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
More Augustus Quotes
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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 you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Make haste cautiously.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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