I am a man of my word.
AUGUSTUSWe write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
More Augustus Quotes
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Make haste cautiously.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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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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