But now, Simonides, he continued, I want to show you all those delights
						that were mine when I was a private citizen, but which I now find are
						withheld from me since the day I became a despot. I communed with my fellows then: they pleased me and I pleased them. I
						communed with myself whenever I desired rest. I passed the time in
						carousing, often till I forgot all the troubles of mortal life, often till
						my soul was absorbed in songs and revels and dances, often till the desire
						of sleep fell on me and all the company.