Cicero was world class complainer after all.
“The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
olafurp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero was world class complainer after all.
Quik@infosec.pub 2 days ago
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…
olafurp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bang on mate. It’s here in the “Misattributed” section en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero