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There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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.]
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see read more
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.
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.]
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.]
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
All of us are crazy in one way or another.
I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]