Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
AUGUSTUSNothing common can seem worthy of you.
AUGUSTUSWhat is done well is done quickly enough.
AUGUSTUSHave I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
AUGUSTUSI found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUSI came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AUGUSTUSBetter a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
AUGUSTUSMake haste cautiously.
AUGUSTUSJust 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.
AUGUSTUSThe 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.
AUGUSTUSAfter this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
AUGUSTUSIf we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUSYou cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
AUGUSTUSAt 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.
AUGUSTUSDid I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUSI 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.
AUGUSTUSQuintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
AUGUSTUS