Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Tiberius

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Roman statesman Tiberius.
Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Tiberius

Tiberius Caesar Augustus was the second Roman emperor. He reigned from AD 14 until 37, succeeding his stepfather, the first Roman emperor Augustus. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC. His father was the politician Tiberius Claudius Nero and his mother was Livia Drusilla, who would eventually divorce his father, and marry the future-emperor Augustus in 38 BC. Following the untimely deaths of Augustus' two grandsons and adopted heirs, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, Tiberius was designated Augustus' successor. Prior to this, Tiberius had proved himself an able diplomat, and one of the most successful Roman generals: his conquests of Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and (temporarily) parts of Germania laid the foundations for the empire's northern frontier.

Roman - Statesman | 42 BC - 37 AD
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.
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.
Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct. — © Tiberius
Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
Power has no limits.
To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Caesar is not above the grammarians.
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
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