But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.

James Baillie Fraser Quotes , Source: Short History of the Hindostan Emperors of the Moghol Race (p. 57)

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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.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes , Source: Satires (II, 3, 120)

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Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes , Source: Satires (II, 3, 158)

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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes , Source: Satires (II, 3, 326)

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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.

Matthew Gregory Lewis ("Monk Lewis") Quotes , Source: The Maniac

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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.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes , Source: De Ira (II, 26)

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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes , Source: De Tranquillitate Animi (XVII, 10)

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

William Shakespeare Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)

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It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, i)

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We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

William Shakespeare Quotes , Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle Quotes

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There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant Quotes

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Baltasar Gracian Quotes

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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet Quotes

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton Quotes

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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Georges Clemenceau Quotes

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All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Yiddish Proverb Quotes

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