Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
He had delusions of adequacy.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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