Top 25 Augustus Quotes
#1. Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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#2. Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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#3. I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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#4. I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
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#5. I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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#6. Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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#7. Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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#9. You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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#10. To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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#11. Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?!
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Practice, the master of all things.
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#15. Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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#16. What is done well is done quickly enough.
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#17. Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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#18. 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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#19. Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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#20. Who will guard the Guardians?
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#21. Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!
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#22. Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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#23. Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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#24. If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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#25. At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order ...
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