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I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
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.]
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.]
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or read more
The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.
It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel read more
It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!