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.
AUGUSTUSHave I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
More Augustus Quotes
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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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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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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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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