the ranks of the insane

October 16, 2017 on 10:22 am | In allgemeines | No Comments

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

First cited by Leo Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves! (1904) as being from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations. see