“Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.”

I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man, and therefore I am a god.

I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me

I don’t care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!