A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Leo Tolstoy

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Destroy Drives God Mad Those Whom Wishes

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Euripides

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Sophocles

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

Publilius Syrus

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Francis Ford Coppola

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

John Boyd Orr

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

John of Damascus

The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

Emma Goldman

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

Bernard Levin

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Irving Layton

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

Charles A. Beard

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Epictetus

(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.

Hilda Doolittle

All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

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