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festina lente means “make haste slowly.” It derives from the Greek σπεῦδε βραδέως (speude bradeos, same meaning). In De vita Caesarum, the historian Sueotinius writes that Augustus Caesar adopted it as his personal adage. It is (maybe) on some miscellaneous Roman coins, it is the motto of my college’s Classics department, and it is good life advice.

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