Omni opportunitate profitebatur disciplinam, quam Jesus Christus ore et vita expressit, unice tranquillitatem dare menti.

At non cavata rupe latescere, Menti nec aegrae montibus aviis Prodest vagari

Musa sub Oebalij desueta cacumine mentis, Flebit inexhausto tarn longa silentia planctu, Lugebitque sacrum lacrymis Helicona tacentem.

La bella eta dell' or unqua non venne, Nacque da nostre menti Entro il vago pensiero, E nel nostro desio chiaro divenne.

'Tis amabilis insania, et mentis gratissimus error, so pleasing, so delicious, that he cannot leave it.

cedo quemvis arbitrum, are they sanae mentis, sober, wise, and discreet?

Felix Plateras de mentis alienat.

1. tells a story to confirm this out of Alexander Benedictus, of a maid that was mad, ob menses inhibitos, cum in officinam meritoriam incidisset, a quindecem viris eadem nocte compressa, mensium largo profluvio, quod pluribus annis ante constiterat, non sine magno pudore mane menti restituta discessit.

Democritus was blind, yet as Laertius writes of him, he saw more than all Greece besides, as [3608]Plato concludes, Tum sane mentis oculus acute incipit cernere, quum primum corporis oculus deflorescit, when our bodily eyes are at worst, generally the eyes of our soul see best.

[3700] "Non enim gazae, neque consularis Summovet lictor miseros tumultus Mentis, et curas laqueata circum Tecta volantes.

When Jupiter himself wept for Sarpedon, what else did the poet insinuate, but that some sorrow is good "Quis matrem nisi mentis inops in funere nati Flere vetat?" who can blame a tender mother if she weep for her children?

Platerus de mentis alienat.

Spiritus quoque aeris et mali genii aliquando se tempestatibus ingerunt, et menti humanae se latenter insinuant, eamque vexant, exagitant, et ut fluctus marini, humanum corpus ventis agitatur.

Should such a man, 'compos mentis', exist, (which I more than doubt,) what could a wise man do but stareand leave him?

Apposita est SARA, conjux, Antiqua FORDORUM gente oriunda; quam domi sedulam, foris paucis notam; nulli molestam, mentis acumine et judicii subtilitate praecellentem; aliis multum, sibi parum indulgentem: aeternitati semper attentam, omne fere virtutis nomen commendavit.

Serviat ut menti corpus jejunia serva, Ut mens utatur corpore, sume cibos.

Nascuntur curis curae, vexatque dolorum Importuna cohors, vacuae mala somnia mentis.

Quicquid agam, quocunque ferar, conatibus obstat Res angusta domi, et macrae penuria mentis.

Tu, queis laborat sors hominum, mala Nec vincis acer, nee pateris pius; Te mille succorum potentem Destituit medicina mentis.

At non cavata rupe latescere, Menti nec aegrae montibus aviis Prodest vagari, nec frementes In specula numerare fluctus.

Hic, in se totum, longe per opaca futuri Temporis, Henricum rapuit vis vivida mentis: Hic pia Vindamius traxit suspiria, in ipsa Morte memor patriae; hic Marmonti pectore prima Coelestis fido caluerunt semina flammae.

Prospera sors nec te strepitoso turbine tollat, Nec menti injiciat sordida cura jugum; Nam vita incertis incerta impellitur auris, Omnesque in partes tracta, retracta fluit; Firma manet virtus; virtuti innitere, tutus Per fluctus vitae sic tibi cursus erit.

Se quinquagenis octingentesima jungit Myrias, ut menti pateat tota Africa[o] doctae.

Dumas found one in Denise, and another in Francillon, where the famous "Il en a menti!" comes within two minutes of the fall of the curtain.

A certain Chever also performed sundry singular mathematical feats, such as squaring the circle, a problem which he reduced to the single question, Construere mundum divinae menti analogum, and showing that the parabola, the only conic section squared by ancient or modern geometers, could never be quadrated, to the eternal discomfiture and discredit of the shade of Archimedes.