“You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.”
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Famous Augustus Quotes
“We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.”
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
“If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.”
“Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!”
“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.”
“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.”
“To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.”
“Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!”
“The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.”
Source: Caesaris Augusti Res gestae ; et, Fragmenta