Augustus Caesar...

Augustus  (first emperor of Rome)
Born: September 23rd, 63B.C. - Rome, Italy
Died; August 19th, 14A.D. - Nola, Italy


poet
autobiographer


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...
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Wars, both civil and foreign, I undertook throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save rather than to destroy. 
- Res Gestae Divi Augusti


I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
- Augustus' statement recorded by Suetonius (Roman historian) in The Twelve Caesars

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand...

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
On Father's Day in Australia - the father of Romanticism in French literature
Born: September 4th, 1768 - Saint-Malo, France
Died: July 4th, 1848 - Paris, France


non fiction writer
travel writer
autobiographer
politician



You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
- The Genius of Christianity or The Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
- Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

Amrita Pritam...

Amrita Pritam
Born: 31st August 1919 - British India - now Punjab, Pakistan
Died: 31st October 2005 - Delhi, India


poet
novelist
essayist
biographer
autobiographer

*considered the first prominent female Punjabi writer


Peace is not just the absence of violence. Peace is when the flowers bloom.

When a man denies the power of a woman, he is denying his own subconscious. 

Warish Shah I call out to you, 
Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, 
Another page of the Book of Love

Goethe...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Born: August 28, 1749 - Free City of Frankfurt
Died: March 22, 1832 - Weimar, Germany

poet
dramatist
autobiographer
statesman


A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Faust
All theory is grey, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.
- Faust


I call architecture frozen music.

The soul that seeks beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Christopher Isherwood...

Christopher Isherwood
Born: August 26, 1904 - UK
Died: January 4, 1986 - US
novelist
playwright
screen-writer
autobiographer
diarist


One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. 

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
 ― A Single Man 

We live in stirring times-  tea-stirring times. 

I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.
 ―  Goodbye to Berlin