Psychology Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mind of each man is the man himself

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The forehead is the gate of the mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

— 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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero