Meditations 1.11

From Fronto I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.11, translated by George Long

From Fronto, to note the envy, the subtlety, and the dissimulation which are habitual to a tyrant; and that, as a general rule, those amongst us who rank as patricians are somewhat wanting in natural affection.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.11, translated by C. R. Haines