Augustus
Augustus
Augustuswas the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionRoyalty
latin cautious commanders
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
love-is keeping-promises courses
Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
voice long tales
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,
loss winning order
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.
giving legion give-me
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
husband children giving-up
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
cheer heart rome
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
writing names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
lying mind roles
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.
practice masters all-things
Practice, the master of all things.
daughter rome my-daughter
Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?!
mean army order
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...
rain want deals
If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
latin rome cities
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.