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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.]

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My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state
is one vast insane asylum.

My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state
is one vast insane asylum.

by James L. Petigru Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.

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

by Samuel Butler Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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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.]

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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.]

by Euripides Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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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.]

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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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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.

by James Baillie Fraser Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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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.

by Georges Clemenceau Found in: Insanity Quotes,
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