14.08.2013 |
magazine issue | 12/2006
written by Daniëlle van Versendaal
Does Exercise Truly Make You Happy?
Does Exercise Truly Make You Happy?
A healthy mind in a healthy body or mens sane in corpore sano, as Decimus Junius Juvenalis put it in his time, is a phrase that seems to imply some causal relationship between exercise and a sound mind. However, when Juvenalis (one of the great Roman satirists of his time) made himself immortal with these words, he at least seemed to care to make a causal statement. / more