No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.