"A man must not promise what he ought not, lest he be called on to perform what he cannot."

"Let us make haste to live, for every day is a new life."

"I restored the images of the gods which had been carried off by the sacrilegious hands of the civil wars."

"I ended civil wars, having obtained supreme power by universal consent."

"I have waged many wars, both civil and foreign, on land and sea, throughout the world, and as victor I have spared all citizens who asked for mercy."