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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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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

“We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.”

Mind Drink Advantage Cooking Filled Food And Drink

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.”

Men Mind Cycles Sensible Inconsistency

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Mind Eye Action Faces Mirrors

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“. . . 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.”

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

Writing Mind Sides Unnecessary Editing Written Language

Author: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 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

“All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.”

Mind All Things

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.”

Mind Exercise

Book:Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate

Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate