Augustus > Quotes

“I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.”
― Caesar Augustus

“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.”
― Augustus

“Quot Libros, Quam Breve Tempus”
― latin

“Festina Lente!!!
(Make Haste, Slowly!!”
― Augustus

“If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage”
― Augustus

“Who will guard the Guardians?”
― Latin

“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
― Augustus

“Have I not played my part well in the comedy of life? So clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.”
― Augustus

“The Senate decreed that vows should be undertaken every fifth year by the consuls and priests for my health.”
― Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus

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

“I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.”
― emperor of Rome Augustus Augustus

“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.”
― Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus

“Semper putaram, orbis terrarum erat dans votum fecit.”
― Augustus

“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble”
― Augustus

“Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.”
― Augustus