Augustus
Born Gaius Octavius, was the adopted son of Julius Caesar and the first Roman Emperor.
I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
Two Caesars is one too many.
Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
I declined to be made Pontifex Maximus in succession to a colleague still living, when the people tendered me that priesthood which my father had held. Several years later I accepted that sacred office when he at last was dead who, taking advantage of a time of civil disturbance, had seized it for himself, such a multitude from all Italy assembling for my election, in the consulship of Publius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius, as is never recorded to have been in Rome before.
If Agrippa and Maecenas had been alive, they never would have allowed it.
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.