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.
AUGUSTUSI am a man of my word.
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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Make haste cautiously.
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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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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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I am a man of my word.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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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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