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: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Mad as a March hare.

Mad as a March hare.

O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see read more

O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see his glaring eyes:
Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.
Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,
Such screams to hear, such sights to see!
My brain, my brain,--I know, I know
I am not mad but soon shall be.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.

Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of declamation.
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Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of declamation.
[Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,
Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.

Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.