Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
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