39 Quotes by augustus

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

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

What is done well is done quickly enough.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Practice, the master of all things.

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?!

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

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...