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> [“No one dances while he is sober. Unless he happens to be a lunatic. -Cicero”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/no-one-dances-while-he-is-sober-unless-he-happens-to-be-a-lunatic/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

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> [The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/the-vanity-extended-most-of-all-to-his-library-arguably-the-real-love/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

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## Other authors on Cicero

## More by Stacy Schiff

> [As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/as-always-an-educated-woman-was-a-dangerous-woman/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/recently-a-study-proved-that-working-from-a-larger-less-cluttered/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/she-did-not-believe-fate-as-painstaking-as-her-husband-she-was-more/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/what-we-know-about-cleopatra-s-looks-is-based-purely-on-her-coin/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/no-one-in-the-modern-world-controls-the-wealth-or-territory-that/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [“Against a powerful enchantress there is no contest. Against a woman who ensnares a man in the coils of her serpentine intelligence - in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/against-a-powerful-enchantress-there-is-no-contest-against-a-woman/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [Motherhood is always an act of courage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/motherhood-is-always-an-act-of-courage/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/cleopatra-stood-at-one-of-the-most-dangerous-intersections-in-history/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/nabokov-complained-he-was-afflicted-with-total-recall-an-affliction/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/history-existed-to-be-retold-with-more-panache-but-not-necessarily/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/v-ra-assumed-her-married-name-almost-as-a-stage-name-rarely-has/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/when-a-woman-teams-up-with-a-snake-a-moral-storm-threatens-somewhere/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/the-interesting-thing-about-cleopatra-is-that-she-is-such-a-shape/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/parenting-is-an-exercise-in-unintended-consequences/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

> [Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/strangely-enough-politics-may-just-be-the-one-realm-in-which-having/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

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