Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUSYou cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
More Augustus Quotes
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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.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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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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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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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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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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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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I am a man of my word.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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