There will be vices as long as there are men. - Tacitus

The busts of twenty most illustrious families were borne in the procession, with the names of Manlius, Quinctius, and others of equal rank. But Cassius and Brutus outshone them all, from the very fact that their likenesses were not to be seen.

Indeed, when a ruler once becomes unpopular, all his acts, be they good or bad, tell against him.

Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.