In any case, Posidonius would later recall with disapproval that the abundance of Syria in those days made its people "free from the bother of the necessities of life, and so were forever meeting for a continual life of feasting and their gymnasia turned into baths." He wrote of the "drunken ambition" of the local tyrants. Things were good, but good times rarely makes for great people, or great governments.
-Ryan Holiday/Stephen Hanselman, Lives Of The Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
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