“The crowd is at silent odds with the prince. As is the way of a populace, the man of the future is the favourite.”

—  Statius, book Thebaid

Tacitumque a principe vulgus
dissidet, et, qui mos populis, venturus amatur.
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 169

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