A CERTAIN person, deeply involved in debt,
feigned madness to escape the consequences of his
liabilities. Physicians failed to cure his disease, and
the more he was treated for his ailments the greater
became his madness. At last a wise physician found
out the truth, and, taking the feigning mad man
aside, rebuked him saying: "My friend, what are
you doing? Beware lest in feigning madness you
become really mad. Already you have developed
some genuine signs of insanity." This sensible
advice awoke the man from his folly, and he left
off acting the part of a mad man.
By constantly acting a thing, one actually becomes
that.
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