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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.

Augustus

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
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Citizenship Comfortable Live Management Planning Pleasure Survive Temporary Wife
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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Argument Change Citizenship Constitution Establishment Man Seek
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Conquer Race Roman World
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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Citizenship Survive Wife
What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Enough One Liner Quick
I am a man of my word.
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Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Death End Existence Myself Play Praise
After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
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Authority Friendship Myself Office Position Time
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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Control Economics Family Financial Give Up Husband Men Responsibility Share
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Better Boss Command Oneself
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Name Ourselves Sand Wash Wave Writing
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Hands Myself Part Play Praise Stage
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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Agriculture City Courage Goodness Grain Mindset Myself People Politician Review
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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Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Alive Farewell Marriage Ourselves Togetherness

I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.

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