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“All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.”

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Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.”

Fool Mediums Madmen

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.”

Knows Doubt Crazy Masters Fool Promise Empty No Doubt Madmen Squires Empty Promises

Book:The adventures of Don Quixote

Source: The adventures of Don Quixote

“No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.”

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Author:Owen Feltham

“Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.”

Men Enough Wise Fool Satisfaction Good Enough Madmen

Author:Benjamin Whichcote

“As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.”

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Author:John Locke

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

Firsts Humans Literature Fear Human Beings Atheism Fool Innovation Majority Notion Appearance Familiar Dislike Dread Madmen Innovators Persecuted Willful Ignorance

Author:Aldous Huxley

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.”

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Book:Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”

Thinking Way Persons Action Courses Strong Fool Foundation Fortune Mortals Madmen Prospering Strong Foundation

Book:Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion

Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion