Talk:Augustus

The bold and Unbold are inconsistent. Let us make it the same throughout.

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• Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

• Practice, the master of all things.

• Hasten deliberately.
  • Variant: Make haste slowly.

• You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

• Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
  • Said of Julius Caesar

• Two Caesars is one too many.
  • Said upon ordering the death of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and (allegedly) Julius Caesar.

• If Agrippa and Maecenas had been alive, they never would have allowed it.
  • Said after having lost his temper during a meeting of the Senate

• The birds will soon settle that question
  • Said after a request was made by a father and son to have an honorable burial