About Augustus: Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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 r...
