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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

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

Common Worth Yourself
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
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
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AUGUSTUS

Death King Meet Myself
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
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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Conquer Race Roman World
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
AUGUSTUS

Argument Change Citizenship Constitution Establishment Man Seek
What is done well is done quickly enough.
AUGUSTUS

Enough One Liner Quick
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
AUGUSTUS

Change Greatness Impediment Lying Mindset Ourselves Role Traditional Unconscious Visible
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
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
AUGUSTUS

Better Boss Command Oneself
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
AUGUSTUS

Eternal Human Ourselves Survive Tale Voice
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AUGUSTUS

Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
Practice, the master of all things.
AUGUSTUS

Master One Liner Practice
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
AUGUSTUS

Demand Empire Myself

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