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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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.
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms
.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms
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.]
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.]
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
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.