Marcus Tullius Cicero Body Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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