Lucius Annaeus Seneca. About blessed life (№ 437297)

Contrary to common sense, people always stand up for what brings them trouble. This is what happens in elections in the popular assembly: as soon as the fickle wave of popularity rolls back, we begin to wonder how the people we ourselves have just voted for have slipped into praetors. We sometimes approve and sometimes condemn the same things; this is the inevitable defect of any decision taken by the majority.