Grrrrr, he very likely didn’t say that.
The closest to it I could find is “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws” by Tacitus (The Annals of Imperial Rome).
Cicero lived at the end of the republic, his problem wasn’t too many laws…
“The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quik@infosec.pub 8 months ago
olafurp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bang on mate. It’s here in the “Misattributed” section en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero
olafurp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cicero was world class complainer after all.