Exordia (55.3)

For you are the worst people for taking away the offices that fall to your class, and for enacting laws about them if someone serves twice as commissioner of police[*] or something of the sort, but you allow the same men to be generals all the time.[*] There is perhaps some excuse for allowing those engaged in the active services to continue, but to allow the others, who, though doing nothing, have an endless tenure of office and are themselves endlessly benefited is folly.[*] Instead, you ought to bring in some of your own number, and there are not a few of you. For if you set up a standard, as it were, anyone who is worth anything will thereafter come forward of his own accord.