I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AUGUSTUSBetter a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
More Augustus Quotes
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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