Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
eye lovers difficult
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
eye body sentinels
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
eye body highest
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
beauty beautiful eye
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.
eye mind fellowship
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
song sweet eye
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.
eye ears watches
Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.
lying eye men
For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
eye mirrors mind
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
eye mind faces
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
inspirational eye light
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
eye soul portraits
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
eyes portrait
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
fortune tests
The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends