Cicero - Mind Quotes

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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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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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.

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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

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After death the sensation is either pleasant or there is none at all. But this should be thought on from our youth up, so that we may be indifferent to death, and without this thought no one can be in a tranquil state of mind. For it is certain that we must die, and, for aught we know, this very day. Therefore, since death threatens every hour, how can he who fears it have any steadfastness of soul?

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

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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We, on the contrary, make blessedness of life depend upon an untroubled mind, and exemption from all duties.

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As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning; each is feeble without the other.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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