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Misattributed quotes — Cicero

b. 106 BC

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

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The following three quotes are sometimes wrongly attributed to Cicero. In fact, they come from a novel about Cicero by Taylor Caldwell, and are not found in any of Cicero's actual writings.

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"The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease."

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So live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts

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"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'"

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cicero (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.