Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Augustus

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Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor, reigning from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. His status as the founder of the Roman Principate has consolidated a legacy as one of the greatest leaders in human history. The reign of Augustus initiated an imperial cult and era identified with imperial peace, the Pax Romana or Pax Augusta. The Roman world was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries, despite continuous wars of imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and the year-long civil war known as the "Year of the Four Emperors" over the imperial succession.

Roman - Royalty | 63 BC - 14

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Hasten slowly.

Augustus

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

Augustus

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Augustus

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

Augustus

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

Augustus

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

Augustus

Practice, the master of all things.

Augustus

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

Augustus

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

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

Augustus

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

Augustus

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Augustus

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

Augustus

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

Augustus

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

Augustus

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

Augustus

I am a man of my word.

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

Augustus

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

Augustus

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Augustus

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

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Augustus

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

Augustus

Make haste cautiously.

Augustus

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

Augustus

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

Augustus

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

Augustus

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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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.

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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.

Augustus

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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Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Augustus

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