Usage as the motto of military institutions:.Beale Gaelic Football Club from County Kerry.The Israeli Institute of Technology athletics teams.The Turners Organization American Turners and their local organizations like the Los Angeles turners.Keyer, leader of the Public Health Council of the Netherlands during the Second World War, used the phrase as goal for public health care. In 1862 he chose it as the motto of the Liverpool Athletic Club and Liverpool Olympic Games. Its first use in an athletic context appears to have been by John Hulley in December 1861.His work echoes the principles of late nineteenth century Prussian society. He uses the phrase to highlight a sound principle of his German nationalistic doctrine. Heinrich von Treitschke used this phrase in his work titled The Army.John Locke (1632–1704) uses the phrase in his book Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693.What man is happy? "He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind and a docile nature." Its most general usage is to express the hierarchy of needs: with physical and mental health at the root.Īn earlier, similar saying is attributed to the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales: It can be construed to mean that only a healthy mind can lead to a healthy body, or equally that only a healthy body can produce or sustain a healthy mind. Over time and separated from its context, the phrase has come to have a range of meanings. That the gods had provided man with virtues which he then lists for them.
Traditional commentators believe that Juvenal's intention was to teach his fellow Roman citizens that in the main, their prayers for such things as long life are misguided. What I commend to you, you can give to yourself įor assuredly, the only road to a life of peace is virtue.
The loves and banquets and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. The woes and hard labors of Hercules better than That knows neither wrath nor desire and thinks You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.Īsk for a stout heart that has no fear of death,Īnd deems length of days the least of Nature's gifts
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