Augustus
Quotes by Augustus
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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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Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.
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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 liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.
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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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Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.
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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 liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.
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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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