Augustus Quotes
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Make haste cautiously.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.