Good correction. No Roman Emperor was good, but maybe Constatine is an exception because he mainstreamed Christianity, he was Gods vessel in that way.
Although it seems like it would have been great to be part of the Claudio-Julian Family at the onset of the Imperium, on second thought it would be terrible. Nobody could be trusted. You couldn't even trust yourself. Everyone in your family would be thinking that he/she must seize the superb opportunities that such power gives--and everyone would have a different idea of what that might mean.
It would be so easy to commit some terrible act.
It would be so easy to eliminate someone who was in your way--or whom you disliked--or who seemed worthless--or even on a whim.
It would be so easy to start down the pathway of corruption, an increment at a time, until you had destroyed everything about yourself and everything in the world that you cherish.
Years ago, when I was establishing myself in business, a man I had enlisted for advice suggested an arrangement I could make that would make it possible for me to cheat the people I worked with out of large sums of money.
"You wouldn't have to do that," he said. "You would just reserve that option."
"I don't want to have an option like that," I replied. "I don't even want to be able to do something like that!" I envisioned some terrible possibility, such as a sick child or something that might tempt me to exercise such an evil option.
Of course I refused his suggestion.
I also refused to do business with that particular man again. I wanted nothing to do with him.
To have absolute power might seem like a great blessing, but it would be a terrible thing.
Corruption is a terrible thing.
The corruption in the US Federal Government is frightening and dangerous. Any honest, intelligent person in America should be alarmed.