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Augustus has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!
• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
• May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy…
• If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
• Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
• Make haste cautiously.
• Only that which is well done is quickly done.
• Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
• Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
• Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
• To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

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