39 Quotes by augustus

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit

Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.

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

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.

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

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.

I am a man of my word.