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1 Praise| here and there, is Anoia, Madness; she with the smooth skin 2 Praise| wedlock to this my follower, Madness; and what you owe to me 3 Praise| the benefit of other men’s madness.~And now, having vindicated 4 Praise| was beyond heaven, that madness never came into their heads. 5 Praise| nothing is more miserable than madness. But folly is the next degree, 6 Praise| thing. For what else is madness than for a man to be out 7 Praise| have done and distinguished madness from madness, if at least 8 Praise| distinguished madness from madness, if at least they would 9 Praise| wits themselves. For all madness is not miserable, or Horace 10 Praise| poetical fury a beloved madness; nor Plato placed the raptures 11 Praise| But there are two sorts of madness, the one that which the 12 Praise| look upon so pleasant a madness as an evil to be removed 13 Praise| understanding be to be called madness.~For neither he that having 14 Praise| king. And yet this kind of madness, if, as it commonly happens, 15 Praise| for the species of this madness is much larger than the 16 Praise| not some tang or other of madness.~And to this class do they 17 Praise| another Hermogenes. But of all madness that’s the most pleasant 18 Praise| certain kind of pleasant madness. For they are not only subject 19 Praise| that call that palpable madness zeal, piety, and valor, 20 Praise| know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly.” Where, by the 21 Praise| nothing else but a kind of madness and folly; far be it that 22 Praise| holds it in, they call it madness; and if this happen through 23 Praise| every man, ’tis downright madness. And yet we see such kind 24 Praise| not be the same kind of madness, yet ’tis so near it that 25 Praise| bewailed their palpable madness that were possessed with 26 Praise| nothing else but a kind of madness.~And therefore suppose that 27 Praise| like it when he called the madness of lovers the most happy 28 Praise| you may say ’tis downright madness and not be mistaken, or 29 Praise| the more pleasant is his madness. And therefore, what is 30 Praise| somewhat little differing from madness; for they utter many things 31 Praise| nothing more than this kind of madness, to be perpetually mad.