Et priores quidem principes, excepto patre tuo, praeterea uno aut altero (et nimis dixi), vitiis potius civium quam virtutibus laetabantur, primum quod in alio sua quemque natura delectat, deinde quod patientiores servitutis arbitrabantur, quos non deceret esse nisi servos.
Previous emperors, with the exception of your father and one or two more (and that is saying too much), did in fact take more pleasure in the vices of their subjects than in their virtues, first because everyone likes a man after his own heart, then because they supposed that slavery would be more acceptable to people unfitted to be anything but slaves.
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