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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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A Boring Dystopia
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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...
Bang on mate. It's here in the "Misattributed" section https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero
Cicero was world class complainer after all.