"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on Insanity
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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

Socrates on Contentment
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"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."

Socrates on Contentment
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"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."

Lin Yu-tang on Contentment
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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang on Peace of Mind
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"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

Lin Yu-tang on Life and Living
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"Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content."

Lin Yu-tang on Age and Aging
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"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."

Lamb, Charles on Contentment
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"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on Contentment
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin on Contentment
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."

Baudelaire, Charles on Madness
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"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility."

Baudelaire, Charles on Originality
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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

Artaud, Antonin on Insanity
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on Insanity
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"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Illusion
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"The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap."

Ozick, Cynthia on Madness
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"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"

Orwell, George on Madness
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"The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground."

Melville, Herman on Madness
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"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."

Foucault, Michel on Madness
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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."

Dali, Salvador on Madness
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"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Broch, Hermann on Madness
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"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

Dali, Salvador on Contentment
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"There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed."

Seller, Peter on Individuality
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"No one can transcend their own individuality."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Individuality
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Revenge
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Poverty and The Poor
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Love
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Love
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Life and Living
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Anger
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Humor
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Idleness
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Forgiveness
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Change
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"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Causes
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"Be yourself, who else is better qualified?"

Giblin, Frank J. on Individuality
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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

Scott, Sir Walter on Deceit
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"Cowards can never be moral."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Coward and Cowardice
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"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Culture
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"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Coward and Cowardice
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