#madness

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ↗

— John Dryden

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ↗

— Xenophon

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. ↗

— Otto Weininger

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