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I dodn't think it's a quote; more a paraphrase of: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/marcus_tullius_cicero-orator/1939/pb_LCL342.395.xml?readMode=recto https://

• ahazred8ta 1y ago
  To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
• whatnow37373 1y ago
  That’s a very … liberal interpretation. I find it fascinating how many interesting quotes turn out to be fabrications of unknown origin.
  • MarkusQ 1y ago
    I suspect what happened here (and possibly in other similar cases) is that some author glossed a body of work in a way that made sense in context, and others mistook it as a quotation. It's as if I remarked that Isaac Asimov said a lot of prescient things about robots, and people saw that and started quoting it: > A lot of prescient things about robots. > -- Issac Asimov