ينبغي، إنصافًا للإنسانية، ألّا نحتقر إنسانًا لمصائب عقله، لا أكثر مما نحتقره لمصائب جسده، ما دامت من النوع الذي لا حيلة له فيه؛ فلو تأمّلنا هذا تأمّلًا عميقًا، لما سخرنا من رجل لأن عقله قد تصدّع، كما لا نسخر منه لأن رأسه قد كُسر.

“We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.”Alexander Pope — The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson (1812)