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.
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They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi read more
They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae read more
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]
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.
I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
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.]
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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.]
