Cicero - Body Quotes

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.

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Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

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

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

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Philosophy is certainly the medicine of the soul. Its aid is to be sought not from without, as in diseases of the body; and we must labour with all our resources and with all our strength to cure ourselves.

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Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.

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And, indeed, when I reflect on this subject I find four reasons why old age appears to be unhappy: first, that it withdraws us from active pursuits; second, that it makes the body weaker; third, that it deprives us of almost all physical pleasures; and, fourth, that it is not far removed from death.

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

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