Augustus Quotes

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

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.

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

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

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.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

I am a man of my word.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

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.

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

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

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

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

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

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.

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

Make haste cautiously.

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

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

Practice, the master of all things.

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.

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

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

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.