Augustus Quotes

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

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Practice, the master of all things.

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

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.

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.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

Make haste cautiously.

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.

I am a man of my word.

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

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.

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.