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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
[Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
[Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger
that is felt towards men?
[Lat., read more
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger
that is felt towards men?
[Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res
effundere.]
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini read more
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
