"My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words."

"I preferred to be the author of a new example than to imitate an old one."

"Let us make haste to live, for every day is a new life."

"I extended the boundaries of all the provinces of the Roman People."

"To err is human, to persist is diabolical."