Augustus Quotes
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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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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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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Practice, the master of all things.
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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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I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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I am a man of my word.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!