Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

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The Roman statesman Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) said "Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself."

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