Augustus
Born Gaius Octavius, was the adopted son of Julius Caesar and the first Roman Emperor.
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
He could not even stand up to review his fleet when the ships were already at their fighting stations, but lay on his back and gazed up at the sky, never rising to show that he was alive until Marcus Agrippa had routed the enemy.
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
Postquam bis classe victus naves perdidit, Aliquando ut vincat, ludit assidue aleam.
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.