All of us are crazy in one way or another.

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Some are born mad. Some remain so.

Some are born mad. Some remain so.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, read more

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae read more

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]

Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
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Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

Insanity is my only means of relaxation

Insanity is my only means of relaxation

I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]

I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]