Quotes by Augustus - Page 1

Hasten slowly.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Hasten
Slowly
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Make haste cautiously.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Haste
Latin
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I am a man of my word.
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Practice, the master of all things.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
All Things
Masters
Practice
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Common
Seems
Worthy
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Alive
Farewell
Latin
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Done
Enough
Pace
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Give Me
Giving
Legion
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Kings
Corpses
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Life
Want
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Done
Latin
Wells
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Cautious
Commanders
Latin
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Deals
Rain
Want
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Ass
Bad Ass
Exit
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I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Factories
Wish
World
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Cheer
Heart
Rome
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Bricks
Cities
Found
Latin
Left
Marble
Rome
City
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Race
Togas
World
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Old Man
Young
Old
Hear
Whom
Young Men
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Long
Tales
Voice
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Men
Aging
Young
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Comedy
Play
Roles
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Names
Sand
Writing
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Applause
Hands
Latin
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Men
Citizens
Good Man
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Nuisance
Rome
Wife
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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 / Roman Emperor
Power
Time
Office
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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 / Roman Emperor
Lying
Mind
Roles
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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 / Roman Emperor
Children
Giving Up
Husband
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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 / Roman Emperor
Agriculture
Italian
Mean
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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.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Army
Mean
Order
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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 / Roman Emperor
Nuisance
Rome
Wife
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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.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Government
Desire
Latin
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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 / Roman Emperor
Loss
Order
Winning
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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.
Augustus / Roman Emperor
Moving
Sacrifice
Struggle
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