Augustus famous quotes

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.
-- Augustus

#Wish #World #Factories

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

#Latin #Rome #Cities

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!
-- Augustus

#Bad Ass #Exit #Ass

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

#Rain #Rainbow #Want

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,
-- Augustus

#Voice #Long #Tales

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?!
-- Augustus

#Daughter #Rome #My Daughter

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

#Writing #Names #Sand

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
-- Augustus

#Children #Giving Up #Husband

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.
-- Augustus

#Lying #Mind #Roles

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.
-- Augustus

#Struggle #Moving #Self Confidence

Practice, the master of all things.
-- Augustus

#Practice #Masters

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.
-- Augustus

#Rome #Wife #Nuisance

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

#Race #Togas #World

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
-- Augustus

#Men #Good Man #Citizens

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.
-- Augustus

#Loss #Winning #Order

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
-- Augustus

#Want #Extraordinary Life #Extraordinary

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect 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 deep and secure.
-- Augustus

#Latin #Government #Desire

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

#Latin #Hands #Applause

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
-- Augustus

#Latin #Cautious

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
-- Augustus

#Play #Roles #Comedy

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

#Men #Aging #Young

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

#Wish #World #Factories

Make haste cautiously.
-- Augustus

#Latin #Haste

Only that which is well done is quickly done.
-- Augustus

#Latin #Done #Wells

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

#Rome #Wife #Nuisance

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...
-- Augustus

#Mean #Army #Order

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.
-- Augustus

#Mean #Italian #Cities

I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
-- Augustus

#Kings

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
-- Augustus

#Common #Worthy

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

#Cheer #Heart #Rome

What is done well is done quickly enough.
-- Augustus

#Pace #Done #Enough

I am a man of my word.
-- Augustus

#Men

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.
-- Augustus

#Time #Office #Authority

Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
-- Augustus

#Love Is #Promise

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
-- Augustus

#Latin #Farewell #Alive