Reply #15: It breaks my heart that there are those

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so foolishly entrenched in not understanding that life is so hard to bring into this world and so easily lost.

Caligula comes to mind.

What we can conclude is that he was carried away by the absolute nature of the power that he had inherited from more hard-working and stable emperors. He seemed to be determined to flaunt that power and to strip away all the pretense and euphemisms in which Augustus (and Tiberius, to a lesser extent) had cloaked it. Caligula's bizarre behavior demonstrates what can happen when absolute power is combined with a total lack of responsibility and respect for others (see Garrett Fagan's biography for a balanced assessment of Caligula).

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/caligula.html