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Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses.

Juvenal

Satires

On the modern (at that time) Roman citizen.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Caesar Augustus

Quoted in Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius

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Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in De vita Caesarum [About the Life of the Caesars], written by Suetonius. c. 121.

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Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in The Lives of the Caesars, written by Suetonius, translated by Catharine Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 8.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 8.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 6.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 6.

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Epictetus. Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou [Enchiridion of Epictetus]. c. 125 CE, ch. 15.

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Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 15.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 2.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 2.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 11.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 11.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 1.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 1.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 13.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 13.

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Epictetus. Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou [Enchiridion of Epictetus]. c. 125 CE, ch. 5.

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Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 5.