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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
[Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod
Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]
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.]
For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
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.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
