A Quote by Seneca the Younger
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
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It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
The dreamer is a madman quiescent,
the madman is a dreamer in action.
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
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