Augustus Quote by Plutarch

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die - There was courage in his quick impatient tread;…

— A.B. Paterson

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”

— Paul Bamikole

“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books. He…

— Virginia Woolf

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because…

— William Faulkner

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in those things…

— Marcus Aurelius

“All of a sudden his books, which had hitherto been merely a fond decoration and a means of letting his mind free itself from…

— Simon Winchester

“If anyone gets intoxicated with his knowledge when he looks beneath him, let him turn his eyes upward toward past ages, and he will…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens