Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In Catilinam 1-4, Pro Murena, Pro Sulla, Pro Flacco. Translated by C. Macdonald, Harvard University Press, 1976, p. 209.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
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