“-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?”
“Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.”
“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire”
“whom fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad”
“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”
“I loved him in the way young people are mad for those they wish to resemble.”