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Seneca Quote: 'Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ...'

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It takes madness to find out madness.


Lady Gregory
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.


William James
A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.
Lysander Spooner
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.


Jane Austen
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Sanity is madness put to good use.


George Santayana
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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.


Sextus Propertius
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.


Aristotle
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Success can create more madness than happiness.


Billy Ocean
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The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.


David Suzuki
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.


Otto Weininger
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.


Emile M. Cioran
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.


Theodore Roethke
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Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
Robert Toombs
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.


Edgar Allan Poe
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.


Blaise Pascal
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For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic William Farrar
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