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That makes him an idealist, not a good person.
Unfortunately, his ideals were "All power to the aristocracy, the poors need to learn their place"
I do thank him for giving me a good republican-era Roman example of lifelong same-sex sexual relationship, though. Retiring with Metrobius to a nice Mediterranean isle would be cute if Sulla wasn't a TYRANT