Seneca the Younger Quotes About Madness

• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

• There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insanity, Genius, Spices

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Animi Tranquillitate, XV. 10, 1922.

• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Madness, Drunkenness

• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Men, Joy

• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

• That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Luxury, Greed

• There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

  Seneca the Younger

  Elements, Madness, Talent

• There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Madness, Genius And Madness

• There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Mixtures, Madness

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