A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
[Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]
Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
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.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it.
[Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
The soul has more diseases than the body.
None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
[Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.
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