"I am an actor who has played his part well: now applaud as I exit."

"I accepted no dictatorship."

"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 had no other object than to deliver the commonwealth from the domination of a faction."

"My son-in-law, Agrippa, had built many magnificent buildings, but I surpassed him in the number of public works."