No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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.

But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes
of his understanding.

But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes
of his understanding.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.