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

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

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

rome cities latin

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain. by Augustus

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

deals want rain

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wa... by Augustus

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

sand names writing

Practice, the master of all things. by Augustus

Practice, the master of all things.

masters all-things practice

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

sacrifice struggle moving

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit. by Augustus

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

ass bad-ass 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.

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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us w... by Augustus

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

nuisance rome wife

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.

roles mind lying

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he... by Augustus

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

aging young men

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice... by Augustus

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

tales voice long

He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

winning loss order

What is done well is done quickly enough. by Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.

pace done enough

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Roman... by Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

togas race world

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one. by Augustus

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

cautious commanders latin

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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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions! by Augustus

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

legion give-me giving

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

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

rome cheer heart

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

nuisance rome wife

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

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