“No sick man's monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won't say it's true.”

Eumenides, fragment 6, from Saturae Menippeae; translation from J. Wight Duff Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964) p. 90.

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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.

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