| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 191 |
| AUTHOR: | Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, Orator, chapter 34, section 120.Cicero: Brutus, Orator, trans. H. M. Hubbell, p. 395 (1939).
This work appeared in 46 B.C. and is sometimes confused with his earlier De Oratore, which appeared in 55 B.C. |
| SUBJECTS: | Children |
| WORKS: | Cicero Collection | | |
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