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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Muskan Singh

Quote of the Day by Rome's greatest orator Cicero: 'To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to...'-The famous philosopher's timeless warning about history, wisdom and why people stop growing when they stop learning

Quote of the day by Cicero: Empires rise and collapse. Leaders repeat old mistakes. Societies ignore lessons that history already tried to teach them centuries earlier. Long before modern politics, social media debates or global conflicts, the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero understood something deeply important about human nature: people who refuse to learn from the past often remain emotionally, intellectually and politically immature.

Quote of the Day by Rome's greatest orator Cicero

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