Augustus

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Make haste slowly.

I have restored to the Senate and People of Rome their ancient rights and dignities.

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

I preferred to be the author of peace rather than of war.

On my sixth and seventh consulships, after I had extinguished civil wars, having by universal consent achieved supreme power, I transferred the republic from my power to the authority of the Senate and Roman People.

I increased the number of the patricians.

I restored eighty-two temples of the gods in the city by the authority of the Senate.

I received the title of Augustus by a decree of the Senate.

I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were my colleagues in any magistracy.

I declined to be made pontifex maximus in the place of another living man.

I have added Egypt to the empire of the Roman people.

I extended the boundaries of all the provinces of the Roman people.

I never undertook a war without just and necessary cause.

I preferred to save a single citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies.

The die is cast.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Better a safe peace than a dangerous victory.

I was born in a small town, and I have made it the capital of the world.