“How can a man be master of another's life, if he is not even master of his own?[...]"
“How can a man be master [a magistrate] of another's life, if he is not even master of his own? Hence he ought to be poor in spirit, and look at Him who for our sake became poor of His own will; let him consider that we are all equal by nature, and not exalt himself impertinently against his own race on account of that deceptive show of office[...]" (On the Beatitudes, Graef, 1954, pp. 94-95)