Tiberius: Serve the state, Caligula, although the people in it are wicked beasts.
Caligula: But they love you, lord.
Tiberius: No, they fear me, and that is much better. I have no choice, you see. No choice.
Caligula: No choice?
Tiberius: All I wanted was private life. I did not truly want to become emperor, but I had to.
Caligula: Had to?
Tiberius: If someone else had become emperor, I would have been killed, as you will be.
Caligula: But they love you, lord.
Tiberius: No, they fear me, and that is much better. I have no choice, you see. No choice.
Caligula: No choice?
Tiberius: All I wanted was private life. I did not truly want to become emperor, but I had to.
Caligula: Had to?
Tiberius: If someone else had become emperor, I would have been killed, as you will be.
Tiberius : Serve the state, Caligula, although the people in it are wicked beasts.
Caligula : But they love you, lord.
Tiberius : No, they fear me, and that is much better. I have no choice, you see. No choice.
Caligula : No choice?
Tiberius : All I wanted was private life. I did not truly want to become emperor, but I had to.
Caligula : Had to?
Tiberius : If someone else had become emperor, I would have been killed, as you will be.
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