Augustus Quotes
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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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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Αἴθ᾽ ὄφελον ἄγαμός τ᾽ ἔμεναι ἄγονός τ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι.
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En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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I am a man of my word.
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Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
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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.
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Festina lente.
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Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
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If i have done well and you're awe stirs pause, give great shout in this actors cause.
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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.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Sat celeriter fieri, quidquid fiat satis bene.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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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.
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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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Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!