Augustus quotes
Augustus was the first Roman Emperor and the founder of the Roman Empire. Under his rule, Rome experienced a period of relative peace known as the Pax Romana. He transformed Rome and set the foundations for centuries of imperial stability. Here are 25 of his quotes:
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
I declined to be made Pontifex Maximus in succession to a colleague still living, when the people tendered me that priesthood which my father had held. Several years later I accepted that sacred office when he at last was dead who, taking advantage of a time of civil disturbance, had seized it for himself, such a multitude from all Italy assembling for my election, in the consulship of Publius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius, as is never recorded to have been in Rome before.
Augustus
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.
Augustus
Augustus
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Occupation: Roman Emperor
Born: 63 BC
Died: 14
Quotes count: 25
Wikipedia: Augustus
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