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
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — 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
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. — 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
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
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
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body” — 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
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
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. — 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
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
