Augustus Quotes
Also known as: Augustus Caesar, Augustus Cæsar, Caesar Augustus, Octavianus, Octavius
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
Ah, never to have married, and childless to have died!
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!
Whatever is done well enough is done quickly enough.
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.
Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
Wars, both civil and foreign, I undertook throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save rather than to destroy.
Those who slew my father I drove into exile, punishing their deed by due process of law, and afterwards when they waged war upon the republic I twice defeated them in battle.
Paint a whitelimbed girl for me
Such as love himself might fashion;
So that nothing hidden be,
Paint her with a lover's passion.
Through her silken garments show
All her body's rosy wonder—
Love will set your sense aglow,
Longing tear your heart asunder.
Call it, when your work you scan,
"Portrait of a wretched man."
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.