Et quoniam mens est hominis pars una, loco quae fixa manet certo, velut aures atque oculi sunt atque alii sensus qui vitam cumque gubernant, et veluti manus atque oculus naresve seorsum secreta ab nobis nequeunt sentire neque esse, sed tamen in parvo liquuntur tempore tabe, sic animus per se non quit sine corpore et ipso esse homine, illius quasi quod vas esse videtur, sive aliud quid vis potius coniunctius ei fingere, quandoquidem conexu corpus adhaeret.
And since the mind is one part of a man, which abides planted in a fixed place, just as eyes and ears are and all the other organs of sense that govern life; and just as hand or eye or nose separated from us can neither feel nor be, but rather are soon dissolved in putrefaction, so the mind cannot be by itself without body or without the man himself, which body seems to be a kind of vessel for it or any other similitude you may choose for a closer conjunction, since in fact the body does cling closely to it.
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