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Augustus

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUS

Death Life Myself Play Role
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.
AUGUSTUS

Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
I am a man of my word.
AUGUSTUS

Man One Liner Promise Word Yourself
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS

Brick Finding Inspirational Marble Myself Transformation
Only that which is well done is quickly done.
AUGUSTUS

One Liner Quick Well
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.
AUGUSTUS

Control Economics Family Financial Give Up Husband Men Responsibility Share
What is done well is done quickly enough.
AUGUSTUS

Enough One Liner Quick
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUS

Hands Myself Part Play Praise Stage
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
AUGUSTUS

Common Worth Yourself
Practice, the master of all things.
AUGUSTUS

Master One Liner Practice
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS

Himself Listening Men Young
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.
AUGUSTUS

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.
AUGUSTUS

Argument Change Citizenship Constitution Establishment Man Seek
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AUGUSTUS

Death King Meet Myself
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.
AUGUSTUS

Authority Friendship Myself Office Position Time
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AUGUSTUS

Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World

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