Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.
Aristotle. Quoted by Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Attributed to Aristotle also by Seneca, Problem. 30. Same idea in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi, XVII. 10. Cicero, —Tusculum. I. 33. 80; also in De Div. I. 37
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