Marcus Duronius, tribune of the plebs, said (cited by Valerius Maximums)
... quid opus libertate, si volentibus luxu perire non licet?
- "For what signifies liberty, if we are not permitted to ruin ourselves by luxury if we think fit?" Rollin
- "what use is liberty if we are not allowed to go to perdition with luxury as we want to?" Shackleton-Bailey
And this got him expelled from the senate by the censors M. Antonius (65) and L. Valerius Flaccus (97 BC).
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