If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUSDid I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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