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)]