Thursday 30 January 2014

Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius

Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius means: "Whom God wishes to destroy, he first drives mad."

In English, we are more familiar with the plural version that appears in Longfellow's poem The Masque of Pandora: "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."

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