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Hey y’all, I have an orphan quote that I’m trying to connect up with its proper inheritance. LearnLiberty has recently been passing around an image macro with an unsourced quotation, attributed to Cicero, saying: *”The more laws, the less justice.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero) It’s a nice sentiment, but I am having trouble finding any evidence that Cicero said it, and it is raising a lot of red flags for a fake quote. (All I can find by searching for the English phrase is quite recent, and almost universally unsourced — mostly the quote is included in quote lists on web pages or in notable-quotations books; or else it is used, again without any specific citation, in popular writing. All of the popular writing I could find on the web or through Google Books that makes use of this quote comes from the last 15 years or so.) I’ve also seen the same quote attributed to other authors, and to an “old German proverb.” If there is somewhere in Cicero that this quote comes from, then where does it come from? If it’s not from Cicero, then where is it actually from?