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mens sana in corpore sano
[ mens sah-nah in kohr-poh-re sah-noh; English menz sey-nuh in kawr-puh-ree sey-noh ]
- a sound mind in a sound body.
Example Sentences
鈥淢ens sana in corpore sano,鈥 Do帽a Charito proclaimed.
鈥淢ens sana in corpore sano or as we modify it in Chiswick, 鈥榗lean bum clean conscience,鈥欌 the star wrote in the image's caption.
The Roman poet Juvenal is the person who introduced the famous maxim 鈥淢ens Sana in Corpore Sano鈥, but it鈥檚 only part of a longer maxim as shown above.
鈥淢ens sana in corpore sano,鈥 he says.
Too often, kids who love to read are called dorks or nerds or some combination thereof, but definitely not high-school-hero athletes, as if聽mens sana in corpore sano 鈥 a sound mind in a sound body 鈥 has become an impossible contradiction in terms.
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