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“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.”

“No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean”

Humans Sin Masters Kings Scene Madness Clean Innocence Gentle Soil Ritual Making Love

Author:Hozier

“A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!”

Ifs Littles Whole Nature Kings Scene Spring Madness Green Experiments Clown Pondering Ponder This

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.”

Ifs Men Doe Country Vision Kings Sight Madness Blind Possession Faculty Providing Precise Blindness

Book:Nights at the circus

Source: Nights at the circus

“It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.”

Has Beens Might Would Be Gone Kings Madness Mad Breathe Locked Madmen Menace Locked Up Prussia

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.”

May Whole Hours Space Generations Kings Madness Swept Away

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the shores Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Well you have the whole Nation on all fours.”

Wells Whole Seems America Nations Causes Millions Gone Policy Kings Mountain Madness Desert Shore Commanders Salute Prairie Allergies Fours

Author:Tori Amos

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”

Ifs Littles Important Order Belief Talking Kings Treats Madness Lays Calm Harm Plato Emperor Madmen Calm Down Madhouses Plato And Aristotle

Author:Blaise Pascal