Quotes from Augustus

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

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

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.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Make haste slowly.

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

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

I am a man of my word.