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Do you remember, Philippus, how we disputed after that anatomical lecture we heard together at Caesarea?" "Perfectly well," said the leech, "and later life has but confirmed the opinion I then held. There is no less true or less just saying than the Latin motto: 'Mens sana in corpore sano, as it is generally interpreted to mean that a healthy soul is only to be found in a healthy body.
"Faugh," said Bruce, on his return to Camford, "that fellow Hazlet isn't worth making an experiment upon in corpore vili truly; but the creature is so wicked at heart, that even his cherished traditions crumble at a touch. He's no game; he doesn't even run cunning." "Then I hope you'll p-p-pay me my p-p-p-ponies," said Fitzurse.
You have had, and shall have, fortune sufficient to assist your merit and your industry; and if I can help it, you never shall have enough to make you negligent of either. You have, too, 'mens sana in corpore sano', the greatest blessing of all.
If we were inclined to be facetious on the subject we might suggest that mens sana in corpore sano is not an infallible rule. Late in the evening the maniac horresco referrens made a furious attack on the residence of Mr. G who was unfortunately absent at the time. Mrs.
A model of the proprieties, and a pattern of the learned philanthropy of which in her sex he was wont to make a constant butt, she was no fit consort for that "mens insana in corpore insano." What could her stolid temperament conjecture of a man whom she saw, in one of his fits of passion, throwing a favourite watch under the fire, and grinding it to pieces with a poker?
Cowley: If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat, With any wish so mean as to be great; Continue heav'n, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love. No. 115. Ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. Juv. Sat. x. v. 356. A healthy body and a mind at ease. Bodily labour is of two kinds, either that which a man submits to for his livelihood, or that which he undergoes for his pleasure.
"Nec pars ulla magis legitur de corpore toto, Quam non legitimo faedere junctus amor." Where, by the way, you may observe, my lord, that Ovid in those words, non legitimo faedere junctus amor, will by no means allow it to be a lawful marriage betwixt Dido and AEneas. He was in banishment when he wrote those verses, which I cite from his letter to Augustus.
Some of his colleagues held that he foolishly restricted himself in declining to experimentalise in corpore vili, whenever such experiments were attended with pain; he was spoken of in some quarters as a "sentimentalist," a man who might go far but for his "fads."
"All right, sir." Steve obediently turned the pages back. "Just the same," he said to himself, "he didn't know what 'mens sana in corpore sano' meant any better than I did! Bet you he didn't kill himself studying when he went to school!" With a sigh he found the "Courses of Study" and read: "Form IV. Classical.
"He don't like to be disturbed Sunday afternoons. He he sort of has a nap, you see." "Just like dad," replied Steve. "Bet you when I get as old as that I won't stick around the house and go to sleep. Say, Tom, what does 'Mens sana in corpore sano' mean?" "A sound mind in a sound body," replied Tom promptly. "Why?" "It's in here and I asked dad and he didn't know." Steve chuckled.
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