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Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
There has been no great genius without an element of madness.

THHA 7 Jan 3
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Well that probably depends on what you think is mad. People probably thought Copernicus was mad to speculate that the sun was the center of the solar system.

cava Level 7 Jan 3, 2019

It would be a difficult call to make, that is, what the author meant, especially given not only the difference in language, but the difference in times . . . .

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