2 Metaphors for deliberate

He told the people to hail him as 'Felix,' declared that his least deliberate were his most successful actions, signed himself 'Epaphroditus' when he wrote to Greeks, named his son and daughter Faustus and Fausta, boasted that the gods held converse with him in dreams, and sent a golden crown and axe to the goddess whom he believed to be his patroness.

But for still another momenthe was as deliberate as nature herself, this manhe stood so, looking down.

2 Metaphors for  deliberate