"I was in my nineteenth year when I raised an army on my own initiative and at my own expense, by means of which I restored liberty to the Republic, oppressed by the domination of a faction."

"I found the city of Rome, which was not adorned as her majesty demanded, to be too small for the empire; so I extended her borders."

"I have always been a man of honor, and have upheld the dignity of the Roman name."

"I was the first to bring a fleet from the Ocean into the Tiber."

"I have always been a man of resolve, and have persevered in the face of adversity."