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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a prominent philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, and writer during the late Roman Republic. The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown, but he was active in the 1st century BC. Known for his profound thoughts and exceptional literary style, Cicero has had a lasting impact on Western culture.

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“Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?”

Years Body Change Conditions Evening

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Mind States Body Can Not Disturbed

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“The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]”

Body Eye Highest Sentinels

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“The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]”

Mind Body Disease Destructive

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“A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]”

Body Hands Age Youth Old Age Sensual Worn Worn Out Intemperance Corpus

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“Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.”

People Kind Mean Persons Body Community Violence Taught Lessons Tradition Logic Beast Civilized Barbarians Wild Beasts

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“Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.”

Littles Body Age Powerful Old Age

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“Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.”

Should Body Action Spirit Language

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“A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.”

States Body Hands Age Youth Old Age Worn Worn Out

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

“For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.”

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

Soul Body Dangerous Health Disease Yoga Wellness Nutrition Health And Wellness Natural Health Spiritual Health Inspirational Health Health Is Wealth Yoga Peace Nutrition And Exercise

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

Mind Body Food Cultivation Food Safety

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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”

World Giving Soul God Body Religion Bears Endure Stubborn

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A home without books is a body without soul.”

Book Soul Home Body Philosophical Historical Joy Of Reading

Author: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 an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

Men Mind May Body Age Funny Time Youth Old Man Old People Elders Youth And Old Age Misspent Youth

Book:Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]

Source: Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]

“In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”

Mind Body Stronger Ill Fierce Severe

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.”

Body Age Youth Aging Old Age Worn Worn Out

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“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.”

Body Eye Highest Sentinels

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“One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.”

Soul Body Individual Destroyed

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“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”

Mind Body Impossible Health Healthy Philosophical Soundness

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“As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.”

Giving Firsts Matter Body Age Past Form Causes Powerful Four Thirds Misery Active Old Age Accomplishment Enjoyment Fourth

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“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”

Soul Body Nations Fool Ambitious Traitor Treason

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“. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.”

“Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.”

Thinking Needs Years Mind May Body Spirit Grows Pleasure Seasons Aging Harvest Parts Of Life

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.”

Body Age Youth Old Age Sensuality Worn Worn Out Intemperance

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.”

Men Self Body Form Spirit Figures Fingers Your Body Mortals True Self

Book:De Re Publica

Source: De Re Publica