Caesar during his whole life had been learning that no good could come to any one from an effete Senate, or from republican forms which had lost all their salt.

Democracy was in vogue with him; not, as I think, from any philanthropic desire for equality; not from any far-seeing view of fraternal citizenship under one great paternal lord--the study of politics had never then reached to that height--but because it was necessary that some one, or perhaps some two or three, should prevail in the coming struggle, and because he felt himself to be more worthy than others.

He had no conscience in the matter.

Money was to him nothing.

Another man's money was the same as his own--or better, if he could get hold of it.