No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
-- Aristotle
-- Aristotle
Related:
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness
--... - Plato says, "'T is to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door
of the Muses;" and Aristotle says "that no excellent soul is exempt
from a mixture of folly."
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Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii... - I am a genius and should be
exempt from... - There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle (384... - There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle (384... - But... surely, your merciful Holiness...
SOME should be exempt from such a draft?"
"EXEMPT?
Oh, all *right*. No DEAD people." --... - What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies. --... - Bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word;
which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of... - No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to
say them deliberately.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533...
