“The idle mind knows not what it wants.”
Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
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Ennius: Mind
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“Your minds that once did stand erect and strong,
What madness swerves them from their wonted course?”
Quo vobis mentes, rectae quae stare solebant
Antehac, dementis sese flexere viai?
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter VI (Loeb translation)
“The mind wanders unsure, except in that life is lived.”
Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur.
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia