Did Palpatine have any redeeming qualities?

If one thinks OOU, 4th-wall breaking opinions are canon - which I'm ambivalent on - that doesn't mean that you have to only look at the precise semantics of the statements as if the words themselves were being considered and not the intent behind them. If someone says "Palpatine doesn't have no rivals" that doesn't mean "Palpatine has rivals" because of the double-negative. That hyper-literal standard isn't even used in the Court of Law. Semantics matter, but not in that way. (At least not reasonably - I guess we could just fiat that the Star Wars universe is dictated by the arrangements of words that actors choose to use, but that seems silly)

Anyway, aside from that Palpatine has a few examples that might be candidates, but it's a stretch:

- when Plagueis offers him to join the dark side, he does seem to initially hesitate by noting that the Sith are considered to be evil
- he criticizes Plagueis for being self-serving, and says that he'll nonetheless be grateful for him as a teacher; this is when Plagueis is being fried, and hypocrisy aside it isn't too far fetched to imagine that Palpatine at that point did in fact mean what he said as he didn't seem to be trying to manipulate the already-dying Sith
- in some of his writings he criticizes those who value themselves over the greater good or something and indicates that he thinks his rule is better for the galaxy, though perhaps this is just BS for whoever the audience is