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AUGUSTUSHave I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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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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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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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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What is done well is done quickly enough.
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Only that which is well done is quickly done.
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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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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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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
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Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
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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 came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
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Make haste cautiously.
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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 found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
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