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I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.]
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
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.]
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
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.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
[Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod
Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]
For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.