"I had a dream that I was being carried up to heaven by Jupiter himself, and that I was being placed among the stars."

"I have done my best, and if it is not enough, then it is not enough."

"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 put an end to the civil wars, which lasted for twenty years."

"I have been called a god, but I am merely a man, subject to the same frailties as others."