"I have always been a man of humility, and have never forgotten my mortal nature."

"The gods have granted me the boon of putting an end to the civil wars."

"I preferred to err on the side of caution and justice, rather than on the side of severity."

"There was no other way to escape my destiny than to kill myself."

"I was in my nineteenth year when I raised an army on my own initiative and at my own expense, by means of which I restored liberty to the Republic, oppressed by the domination of a faction."