Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_viii: Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous ...

Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called εὐπατρίδαι, _i.e._ nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.