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Augustus
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“Si sine uxore pati possemus, Quirites, omnes ea molestia careremus; set quoniam ita natura tradidit, ut nec cum illis satis commode, nec sine illis ullo modo vivi possit, saluti perpetuae potius quam brevi voluptati consulendum est.”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement made as he was dying, as quoted in The Fall of the Roman Empire (2007) by Rita J. Markel, p. 126
“To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of Cato, as quoted in An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies (2008) by Elizabeth A. McCabe
“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 (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.”
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“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Grav…
“Quintili Vare, legiones redde!”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said of Publius Quinctilius Varus, who commanded the three legions lost at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 23. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“Sat celeriter fieri, quidquid fiat satis bene.”
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“En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said disparagingly of a group of men in cloaks, quoting Virgil's The Aeneid. Augustus allowed only those wearing a toga and no cloak to enter the Forum; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 40. Translation: Robert Gr…
“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.”
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Recorded in: The grain supply to the city of Rome was a contentious political issue; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 42. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“Αἴθ᾽ ὄφελον ἄγαμός τ᾽ ἔμεναι ἄγονός τ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι.”
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Recorded in: Quoting Homer's Iliad. Augustus was frequently disappointed in the conduct of his daughter Julia; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 65. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!”
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Recorded in: Said to his wife Livia on his deathbed; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 99. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“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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“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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“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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“I declined to be made Pontifex Maximus in succession to a colleague still living, when the people tendered me that priesthood which my father had held. Several years later I accepted that sacred office when he at last was dead who, taking advantage of a time of civil disturbance, had seized it for himself, such a multitude from all Italy assembling for my election, in the consulship of Publius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius, as is never recorded to have been in Rome before.”
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“Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.”
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