Augustus Quote by Oscar Wilde

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to…

— Edward Gibbon

“but it was reserved for Augustus to relinquish the ambitious design of subduing the whole earth, and to introduce a spirit of moderation into…

— Edward Gibbon

I do, Augustus. I do.

— John Green

He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an…

— Augustus

Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation, had much…

— Edward Gibbon

Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for…

— Blaise Pascal

“The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.”

— Heinrich Heine

“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.”

— Heinrich Heine

“And what thoughts or memories, would you guess, were passing through my mind on this extraordinary occasion? Was I thinking of the Sibyl's prophecy,…

— Robert Graves

“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history.…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

— Anonymous

“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they…

— Charles Dickens