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“It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
[Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]”
Baptista Mantuanus Quotes Source: Eclogue (I)
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“My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state
is one vast insane asylum.”
James L. Petigru Quotes Source: on being asked the way the Charleston, South Carolina, Insane Asylum
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“They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Menoechmi (V, 2, 90)
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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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“Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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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 became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe 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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