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"For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness."
"Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities."
"Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended."
"I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life."
"'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'"
"My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida."
"Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything."
"It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried."
"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."
"It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression."
"Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases."
"All of my characters have a glint of madness."
"Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen"
"There nearly always is a method in madness."
"Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man."
"Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups."
"A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness."
"Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy."
"Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness."
"Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes."
