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Robert Burton est un écrivain anglais.

✵ 8. février 1577 – 25. janvier 1640
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“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

“What can't be cured must be endured.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3.
Variante: What can't be cured must be endured.
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“I light my candle from their torches.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 5, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

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

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 7, Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Contexte: 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.

“Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses…grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.”

Robert Burton livre 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

“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 2, subsection 6. Immoderate Exercise a cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Author's Abstract.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.”

Robert Burton livre 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

“Out of too much learning become mad.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 4, subsection 7.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer… Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Make a virtue of necessity.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

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

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 11, Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambition, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Many things happen between the cup and the lip.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Penny wise, pound foolish.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.”

Robert Burton livre 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

“Be not solitary, be not idle.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 2, subsection 6, Cure of Despair by Physic, Good Counsel, Comforts, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III