Great Throughts Treasury
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Augustus or Augustus Caesar, fully Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, NULL
First Emperor of the Roman Empire, the title of honour given by the Romans to the emperor Caius Julius Octavianus, born Gaius Octavius Thurinus
"Hasten slowly."
"Let them hate, as long as they fear."
"Well done is quickly done."
"No one is so foolish as to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons."
"Fortune favours the brave."
"No risk attends the meed that silence brings."
"Never less alone than when alone."