Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUSBehold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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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I am a man of my word.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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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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To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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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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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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