No such idea ever entered Pompey's head.
After a while he "Sullaturized"-- was desirous of copying Sulla--to use an excellent word which Cicero coined.

When he was successfully opposed by those whom he had thought inferior to himself, when he found that Caesar had got the better of him, and that a stronger body of Romans went with Caesar than with him, then proscriptions, murder, confiscations, and the seizing of dictatorial power presented themselves to his angry mind, but of permanent despotic power there was, I think, no thought, nor, as far as I can read the records, had such an idea been fixed in Caesar's bosom.

To carry on the old trade of Praetor, Consul, Proconsul, and Imperator, so as to get what he could of power and wealth and dignity in the scramble, was, I think, Caesar's purpose.

The rest grew upon him.

As Shakspeare, sitting down to write a play that might serve his theatre, composed some Lear or Tempest--that has lived and will live forever, because of the genius which was unknown to himself--so did Caesar, by his genius, find his way to a power which he had not premeditated.