"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 first man in a city of villages rather than the second man in Rome."

"I received the power of a tribune of the people for life."

"Upon my return from Spain and Gaul, in the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Publius Quintilius, after having successfully settled the affairs in those provinces, the Senate decreed that an altar of Aug…"

"I have been consul thirteen times."