"I provided gladiatorial games and wild beast hunts for the people."

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

"A man must not promise what he ought not, lest he be called on to perform what he cannot."

"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble."

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