Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon
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  1. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. - Unknown

  3. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too. - William Shakespeare

  4. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad! " he annouced. - Douglas Adams

  5. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! - Dale Wasserman

More Quotes By Xenophon
  1. No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

  2. You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I...

  3. ...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.

  4. The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  5. I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

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