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“Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 7, Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Context: Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.

Pleasure , Envy

“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

Books , Knowledge , Reading

“I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

Feeling , Help

“Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

Disease , Study , Personality

“Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 12.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

Dogs , Hurt

“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

Men

“Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“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

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