Mind Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mind of each man is the man himself

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The forehead is the gate of the mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero