5 Quotes & Sayings By Tiberius

Tiberius was the son of the emperor Augustus and the stepson of Agrippina the Elder. His father intended him to succeed his uncle Claudius as emperor, but he was removed from the succession list by Augustus when Tiberius was just 18 years old. When Emperor Claudius died in 54 AD, Tiberius became emperor at the age of 42, under the name Gaius Caesar. He married Vipsania Agrippina, Claudius' sister, but they divorced after two years Read more

She then married Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, who eventually became emperor himself after defeating Tiberius in 31 BC. After four years of war against Sextus Pompey the Great, he was deposed by Augustus in 29 BC.

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Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct. Tiberius
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. Tiberius
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To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand. Tiberius
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I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. Tiberius