“When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.”

— Joseph Addison

St. Ambrose, Si fueris Romæ, Romano vivito more as translated in Latin Proverbs and Quotations (1869) by Alfred Henderson; very commonly paraphrased as "When in Rome do as the Romans do".
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politician, writer and playwright 1672–1719

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