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
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. — 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
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
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only. — 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
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
If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. — 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
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 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
...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 Copy Share Image
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. — 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
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
I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] — 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
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 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
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 Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image