"It is told of [Marius], that having at one time given the freedom of the city to one thousand men of Camerinum who had behaved valiantly in this war, and this seeming to be illegally done, upon some one or other calling him to an account for it, he answered, that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war."
~Plutarch "Life of Gaius Marius"
~Plutarch "Life of Gaius Marius"
Why can't there be candidates a bit more inclined toward the likes of Marcus Aurelius?