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
learn minds pours quickly retain side wish word
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
dark fair foul men minds serene weather
The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
himself man mind
The mind of each man is the man himself
mind occupation humans
The human mind ever longs for occupation.
yield giving mind
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
honor mind matter
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
health mind body
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
truth mind desire
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
mind kind natural
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
sight mind wonder
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
religious ideas mind
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
water mind stains
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
truth philosophical mind
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
philosophical mind virtue
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.