We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
AUGUSTUSI am a man of my word.
More Augustus Quotes
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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 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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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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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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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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I am a man of my word.
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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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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Make haste cautiously.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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