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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. Dryden—Fables. The Hind and the Panther. Pt. III. L. 2,387. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Euripides) There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! Dryden—Spanish Friar. Act II. St. 1. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cowper}} under {{sc|Poets}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. Emerson—Essays. Conduct of Life. Of Behaviour. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 396 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = At daemon, homini quum struit illiquid malum, Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam. But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. Euripides. Fragment 25. Barnes Ed. Attributed to Athenagorus. Also ed. pub. at Padua, 1743-53. Vol. X. P. 268. The Translator, P. Cabmbu, gives the Italian as: Quondo vogliono gli Dei far perire alcuno, gli tiglie la mente. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dryden, Fraser, Sophocles}}) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding. Jambs Fraser—Short Hist, of the Hindostan Emperors of the Moghol Race. (1742) P. 57. See also story of the Christian Broker. Arabian Nights. Lane's trans. Ed. 1859. Vol. I. P. 307. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Euripides}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Mad as a March hare. Halliwell—Archaic Diet. Vol. II. Art. "March Hare." Heywood—Proverbs. Pi. II. Ch. V. Skelton—ReplycacUm Agaynst Certayne Yong Scoters, etc. L. 35. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Thackeray}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Doceo insanire omnes. I teach that all men are mad. Horace—Satires. II. 3. 81. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Mantuanus}}) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem. He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same Horace—Satires. II. 3. 120. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 396 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus. Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. Horace—Satires. II. 3. 158. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = major tandem parcas, insane, minori. Oh! thou who art greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. Horace—Satires. II. 3. 326. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 396 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = demens! et saevas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias. Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. Juvenal—Satires. X. 166. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 396 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? Frig chain some furious mnHman 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