Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share