You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
AUGUSTUSBetter a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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.
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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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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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