Make haste slowly.

Festina lente.

Augustus

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Augustus

First Roman emperor (63 BC-AD 14). Avenger of Caesar, victor at Actium, architect of the Principate. He kept republican forms while concentrating real power, opening the Pax Romana — two centuries of peace.

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Augustus's Other Quotes

I excelled all in influence, although I had no more power than the others who were my colleagues in office.

I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

The play is over; applaud.

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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

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