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Sometimes they would fain descend from their lofty pedestal, if it could be safely done: for fortune collapses by its own weight, without any shock or interference from without. The late Emperor Augustus, upon whom the gods bestowed more blessings than on anyone else, never ceased to pray for rest and exemption from the troubles of empire: he used to enliven his labours with this sweet, though unreal consolation, that he would some day live for himself alone. In a letter which he addressed to the Senate, after promising that his rest shall not be devoid of dignity nor discreditable to his former glories, I find the following words:⁠—“These things, however, it is more honourable to do than to promise: but my eagerness for that time, so earnestly longed for, has led me to derive a certain pleasure from speaking about it, though the reality is still far distant.”\u003Csup data-footnote-reference=\"1\">1\u003C/sup> He thought leisure so important, that though he could not actually enjoy it, yet he did so by anticipation and by thinking about it. He, who saw everything depending upon himself alone, who swayed the fortunes of men and of nations, thought that his happiest day would be that on which he laid aside his greatness. He knew by experience how much labour was involved in that glory that shone through all lands, and how much secret anxiety was concealed within it: he had been forced to assert his rights by war, first with his countrymen, next with his colleagues, and lastly with his own relations, and had shed blood both by sea and by land: after marching his troops under arms through Macedonia, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and almost all the countries of the world, when they were weary with slaughtering Romans he had directed them against a foreign foe. While he was pacifying the Alpine regions, and subduing the enemies whom he found in the midst of the Roman empire, while he was extending its boundaries beyond the Rhine, the Euphrates, and the Danube, at Rome itself the swords of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and others were being sharpened to slay him. Scarcely had he escaped from their plot, when his already failing age was terrified by his daughter and all the noble youths who were pledged to her cause by adultery with her by way of oath of fidelity. Then there was Paulus and Antonius’s mistress, a second time to be feared by Rome: and when he had cut out these ulcers from his very limbs, others grew in their place: the empire, like a body overloaded with blood, was always breaking out somewhere. For this reason he longed for leisure: all his labours were based upon hopes and thoughts of leisure: this was the wish of him who could accomplish the wishes of all other men.\u003C/p>","[{\"id\": 1, \"content\": \"\u003Cp>\\u201c\u003Ci lang=\\\"fr\\\" xml:lang=\\\"fr\\\">Dans une lettre qu\\u2019il envoya au S\\u00e9nat apres avoir promis que son repos n\\u2019aura ri\\u00e8n indigne de la gloire de ses premi\\u00e8res ann\\u00e9es, il ajoute: Mais l\\u2019execution y mettra un prix, que ne peuvent y mettre les promesses. J\\u2019obeis cependant \\u00e0 la vive passion que j\\u2019ai, de me voir a ce temps si d\\u00e9sir\\u00e9; et puisque l\\u2019heureuse situation d\\u2019affaires m\\u2019en tient encore \\u00e9loign\\u00e9, j\\u2019ai voulu du moins me satisfaire en partie, par la douceur que je trouve \\u00e0 vous en parler.\u003C/i>\\u201d \u003Ccite>\\u2014\\u2060La Grange\u003C/cite>\u003C/p> \u003Cblockquote epub:type=\\\"z3998:verse\\\"> \u003Cp> \u003Cspan>\\u201cSuch words I find. But these things rather ought\u003C/span> \u003Cbr/> \u003Cspan>Be done, then said; yet so far hath the thought\u003C/span> \u003Cbr/> \u003Cspan>Of that wish\\u2019d time prevail\\u2019d, that though the glad\u003C/span> \u003Cbr/> \u003Cspan>Fruition of the thing be not yet had,\u003C/span> \u003Cbr/> \u003Cspan>Yet I,\\u201d\u003C/span> \u003C/p> \u003C/blockquote> \u003Cp> \u003Cabbr class=\\\"eoc\\\">etc.\u003C/abbr> \u003C/p>\"}]","json",1775857521181]