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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

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

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

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

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

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

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.