Augustus

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Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (September 23, 63 BC - Augustus 19, 14 AD), born Gaius Octavius, was the adoptive son of Julius Caesar and the first Roman Emperor.

Attributed

• Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

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

• Practice, the master of all things.

• Hasten deliberately.

• Make haste slowly.

• You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

• Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
  • Said of Julius Caesar

• If Agrippa and Maecenas had been alive, they never would have allowed it.
  • Said after having lost his temper during a meeting of the Senate.

• 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.

• To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good 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 cannont manage comfortably with them nor live in any way without them, we must plan for out lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
  • Said when proposing his social legislation on preserving the values of the Roman family
  • possible base for "Can't live with them, can't live without them."

• Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!)
  • Said of Publius Quinctilius Varus in response to the loss of 3 legions at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

• Livia, keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
  • Said to Livia as his dying words

• If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
  • Part of his dying speech

Quotes About Augustus

• "He 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. " ~ Plutarchsv:Augustus