"I had a dream that I was being carried up to heaven by Jupiter himself, and that I was being placed among the stars."

"I have always been a man of temperance, and have avoided excess in food and drink."

"It will be enough if I can make people say after I'm dead that I played my part well."

"I was unwilling to accept any magistracy offered to me which was contrary to the customs of our ancestors."

"I would rather be a first man in a small country than a second man in Rome."