Plato, Laws 922d

ζητῶν εἶναι κύριος ἁπάντων, εἴωθε μετʼ ὀργῆς λέγειν. ποῖα δή; δεινόν γε, ὦ θεοί, φησίν, εἰ τὰ ἐμὰ ἐμοὶ μηδαμῶς ἐξέσται δοῦναί τε ὅτῳ ἂν ἐθέλω καὶ μή, καὶ τῷ μὲν πλείω, τῷ δʼ ἐλάττονα, τῶν ὁπόσοι περὶ ἐμὲ φαῦλοι καὶ ὅσοι ἀγαθοὶ γεγόνασιν φανερῶς, βασανισθέντες ἱκανῶς ἐν νόσοις, οἱ δʼ ἐν γήρᾳ καὶ ἄλλαις παντοίαισι τύχαις. οὐκοῦν, ὦ ξένε, καλῶς δοκοῦσίν σοι λέγειν;

to speak angrily. What will he say? Good heavens! he cries, what a monstrous shame it is, if I am not to be allowed at all to give, or not give, my own things to whomsoever I will—and more to one, less to another, according as they have proved themselves good to me or bad, when fully tested in times of sickness, or else in old age and in other happenings of every kind. And do you not think, Stranger, that what they say is right?