"I declined to accept any office which was contrary to the customs of our ancestors."

"I accepted the position of Pontifex Maximus."

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

"I would rather be a first man in a small country than a second man in Rome."

"I restored the standard of the legions which had been lost in the wars with the Germans."