“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 13, Love of Gaming, &c. and pleasures immoderate; Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Ed. 6, p. 40.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader