Status Updates From Augustus

“ for all his power in the world and of the mind, there is a sadness within him, the source of which I cannot discover.“

“whether of love or war, excess is inevitable.
Yet i have always been bewildered when, in the ease of peace men raise the questions of praise or blame…For those who judge do not judge so much out of a concern for right or wrong as out of a protest against the pitiless demands of necessity, or an approval of them. And necessity is simply what has happened; it is the past.”

“With those legions, he (Antonius) would be invincible; and the world would lie like an unguarded treasure house before his plundering ambition. We simply faced the death of Rome for which Cesar had given his life.”

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“ how do you oppose a foe who is wholly irrational and unpredictable-and yet who out of animal energy, and the accident of circumstance, hesitate to the most frightening power?”