If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

I am a man of my word.

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

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

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.