Cleopatra VII by Girolamo Masini 1882

"What glory is there in carrying much liquor? When you have won the prize, and the other banqueters, sprawling asleep or vomiting, have declined your challenge to still other toasts; when you are the last survivor of the revels; when you have vanquished every one by your magnificent show of prowess and there is no man who has proved himself of so great capacity as you, – you are vanquished by the cask. Mark Antony was a great man, a man of distinguished ability; but what ruined him and drove him into foreign habits and un-Roman vices, if it was not drunkenness and – no less potent than wine – love of Cleopatra?"

-Seneca the Younger, Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 83, Section 24

Cleopatra VII by Girolamo Masini 1882. Current location: Galleria d'Arte Moderna.

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Quote:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_83