I dare say you recollect the passage.
Yes, said Laelius, it is familiar to me.
_Scipio._ Plato thus proceeds: Then those who feel in duty bound to obey the chiefs of the State are persecuted by the insensate populace, who call them voluntary slaves.

But those who, though invested with magistracies, wish to be considered on an equality with private individuals, and those private individuals who labor to abolish all distinctions between their own class and the magistrates, are extolled with acclamations and overwhelmed with honors, so that it inevitably happens in a commonwealth thus revolutionized that liberalism abounds in all directions, due authority is found wanting even in private families, and misrule seems to extend even to the animals that witness it.

Then the father fears the son, and the son neglects the father.

All modesty is banished; they become far too liberal for that.

No difference is made between the citizen and the alien; the master dreads and cajoles his scholars, and the scholars despise their masters.