We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.
Marcus Tullius CiceroCivilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero