“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.”
Book 1, Chapter 9
Source: Scaramouche
“Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own.”
Aeneis, Book I, lines 889–890.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
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