Two Caesars is one too many.
Two Caesars is one too many.
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Said upon ordering the death of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and (allegedly) Julius Caesar.
Other Augustus Quotes
- If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. - View Quote Details on If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome,…
- If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance, but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. - View Quote Details on If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome,…
- If Agrippa and Maecenas had been alive, they never would have allowed it. - View Quote Details on If Agrippa and Maecenas had been alive, they never would…
- Hasten deliberately. - View Quote Details on Hasten deliberately.
- May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. - View Quote Details on May it be my privilege to have the happiness of…
- Livia, keep our marriage alive, and farewell. - View Quote Details on Livia, keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
- Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. - View Quote Details on Young men, hear an old man to whom old men…
- Practice, the master of all things. - View Quote Details on Practice, the master of all things.
- “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. ” ~ Plutarch - View Quote Details on “He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander, having completed nearly all…
- You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. - View Quote Details on You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would…
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