#madness

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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Sanity is madness put to good use. ↗

— George Santayana

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I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Petrarch

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