The actions of those who hold great power, and pass their lives in a lofty station, are known to all the world. So it comes to pass that in the highest position there is the least freedom of action.

Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) Roman general and statesman [Gaius Julius Caesar]

Speech, Roman Senate

In Sallust, The War with Catiline, 51.12 [tr. Rolfe (1921)]