“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 6, Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 2, Of the Force of Imagination.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“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