The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
AUGUSTUSWe write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
More Augustus Quotes
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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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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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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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Make haste cautiously.
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I am a man of my word.
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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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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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