Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Eye, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “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.]”, p.73

• The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Mind, Faces

• I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

• For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed”, p.313

• Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Watches, Done

  "Orationes In Catilinam", I, 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 771-72,

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Mirrors, Mind

• The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Soul, Portraits

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 59, 55 BCE.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Body, Sentinels

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Body, Sentinels

• Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Lovers, Difficult

• Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Song, Eye

• Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Mind, Fellowship

  "De Senectute", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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