[140] and not to permit men to approach positions of public trust who are notoriously depraved; and not even to suffer men to be heard[134] who lend their own persons to base practices but deem themselves worthy to advise others how they should govern the state in order to advance in sobriety and well-being, or who have squandered what they inherited from their fathers on shameful pleasures but seek to repair their own fortunes from the public treasury[135], or who strive always to speak for the gratification of their audience but plunge those who are persuaded by them into many distresses and hardships;