Augustus Quotes
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Make haste cautiously.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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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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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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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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I am a man of my word.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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