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mens sana in corpore sano

[mens sah-nah in kohr-poh-re sah-noh, menz sey-nuh in kawr-puh-ree sey-noh]

Latin.
  1. a sound mind in a sound body.



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“Mens sana in corpore sano,” Doña Charito proclaimed.

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“Mens sana in corpore sano or as we modify it in Chiswick, ‘clean bum clean conscience,’” the star wrote in the image's caption.

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The Roman poet Juvenal is the person who introduced the famous maxim “Mens Sana in Corpore Sano”, but it’s only part of a longer maxim as shown above.

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“Mens sana in corpore sano,” he says.

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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 mens sana in corpore sano — a sound mind in a sound body — has become an impossible contradiction in terms.

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