But power, confessedly derived from the people, must be exercised in obedience to their will, and must be resigned to them again, at least in death.

He was not content.

He desolated Europe afresh, subverted the Republic, imprisoned the patriarch who presided over Rome's comprehensive See, and obliged him to pour on his head the sacred oil that made the persons of kings divine, and their right to reign indefeasible.
He was an Emperor.

But he saw around him a mother, brothers and sisters, not ennobled; whose humble state reminded him, and the world, that he was born a plebeian; and he had no heir to wait impatient for the imperial crown.

He scourged the earth again, and again fortune smiled on him even in his wild extravagance.