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this can mean that more blood goes to the brain.
In the winter you work badly and you often do not have enough heat.
Famous for short stature as well as for genius were:
Horace, Alexander, Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus,
Among great men of tall stature, I only know Volta
Goethe, Petrarch, Schiller, Foscolo,
Bismarck, Dumas
Demosthenes, Aristotle, Cicero,
Giotto, Erasmus, Kepler,
were all extremely thin in the flower of their age.
such were Demosthenes, Bacon, Newton, Locke, Adam
Smith, Flaxman, Haller,
The celebrated Australian novelist, Marcus Clarke, when a child, received
a blow from a horse's hoof which crushed his skull. 2 The
same is told of Vico, Gratry, Clement VI., Malebranche,
and Cornelius hence called a Lapide.
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pretty good poets while they are maniacal ; but when cured can no longer write verse."
And again, "Men illustrious in poetry, politics, and arts, have often been
melancholic and mad, or misanthropic, like
Bellerophon. Even in modern times such characters
have been noted in Socrates, Empedocles, Plato, and in
many others, especially poets."
and would not believe that there could be a good poet who was not out of his mind
