Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness


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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity
SENECA
All belief is a form of voluntary madness.
MARTY RUBIN
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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JOHN DRYDEN
When love is not madness, it is not love.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
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ANAïS NIN
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MICHAEL DOWD
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
BISHOP ROBERT SOUTH
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
ROBERT SOUTH
Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
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CASSANDRA CLARE
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MIKE MILLS
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
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I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.
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Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
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What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.
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There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness.
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Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
NICHOLAS LING
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune
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Life is a voluntary act.
JOHN KOVACICH
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The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober, to observe a drunken person
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Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
TERRY PRATCHETT
My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the...
JAMES JONES
I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.
HANNAH MOSKOWITZ
If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it wo...
RICHARD KADREY
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A.E. HOUSMAN
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GAIL CARRIGER
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Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
LINCOLN STEFFENS
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
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G. K. CHESTERTON
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What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
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There is no voluntary HAZMAT team in Utah,
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessa...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It may have sounded new to some, but it wasn't — there was nothing really new there. As long as the...
GARY YOHE
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is a...
PETRARCH
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FRANCESCO PETRARCH
Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY
Love is madness, and madness is pain. So please; drive me insane with pain.
ENRIQUE VEGA
Drunkenness is when the tongue walks on stilts and reason goes forward under half a sail.
MARTIN LUTHER
Incest is a voluntary act on the woman's part
CHARLES RICE
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and u...
WILLIAM PENN
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CHARLES EASTMAN
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SUZANNE COLLINS
Magic is a power, much like madness but so much more like fire.
CYNTHIA GAEL
Madness breeds madness.
DAN BROWN
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Madness is witlessness’s.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN
I'm not drunk, just a little stoned.
GERARD WAY
One more drink and I'll be under the host.
MAE WEST
It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of...
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Galatians 5:19-21-- Now the works of the flesh are evident: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,...
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Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I...
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
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Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness
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