Augustus Quotes

“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them . . . for it does not belong to the majority of men to acquire virtue . . . Indeed, if ever there has been a prosperous democracy, it has in any case been at its best for only a brief period.’ Dio, early third century AD.1 Augustus”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“Roman women kept their name throughout their lives, and did not change it on marriage.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“Literature was an utterly respectable and highly fashionable leisure interest for the Roman elite – the mark of the truly civilised man. Julius Caesar’s staff in Gaul were an especially literary bunch, and Augustus shared Maecenas’ reverence for poets and writers.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“Julia. At the most basic level a Roman husband had only to utter the phrase ‘take your things for yourself’ (tuas res tibi habeto) to separate from his wife.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“Quite openly, voters selected on the basis of perceived character and past behaviour rather than the views a candidate expressed. Where an individual’s nature was not obvious, the Roman people tended to be drawn to a famous name, for there was a sense that virtue and ability were inherited.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“Un gobernador de Sicilia especialmente notorio afirmó que un hombre necesitaba ejercer el cargo durante tres años: el primero para pagar sus deudas, el segundo para hacerse rico y el tercero para reunir los recursos necesarios para sobornar al juez y al jurado en el inevitable juicio por corrupción que seguiría tras su regreso a Roma. La”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augusto

“Livia was seen as a loyal and a compliant wife – the latter allegedly to a remarkable degree, so that she personally picked out girls for her husband to”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“As Cicero put it, ‘For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them . . . for it does not belong to the majority of men to acquire virtue . . . Indeed, if ever there has been a prosperous democracy, it has in any case been at its best for only a brief period.’ Dio, early third century AD.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“as ever, we should view his behaviour in the context of the times.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“The dead had no say over their use by the new regime,”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“The imperfections of reality have never been a barrier to diplomacy and, day after day in city after city, business was carried on.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“In the good old days, every man’s son, born in wedlock, was brought up not in the chamber of some hireling nurse, but in his mother’s lap, and at her knee. And that mother could have no higher praise than that she managed the house and gave herself to her children . . . In the presence of such a one no base word could be uttered without grave offence, and no wrong deed done. Religiously and with the utmost diligence she regulated not only the serious tasks of her youthful charges, but their recreations also and their games. It was”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“As Cicero put it, ‘For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history?”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“Then as in so many periods, notoriety was more desirable for a politician than obscurity.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

“punzar,”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augusto

“start or”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome