Years ago I had a high-school English teacher--Thomas Chafee by name--who began every class with a short quote scrawled on the blackboard. We would then spend a few minutes discussing it. Thirty-eight (!) years later I still remember a few: "There is none so holy as a reformed whore"--Unknown "Life is nasty, brutish and short"--John Donne AND "A fanatic is one who redoubles his efforts after losing sight of his goal."--MT I suspect this is the translated quote, though I am not near a Bartlett's et al to reference it against the key word "fanatic" MacKinnon Simpson