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“They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 14, Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, etc., Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“One religion is as true as another.”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 2, subsection 1, Religious Melancholy in defect; parties affected, Epicures, Atheists, Hypocrites, worldly secure, Carnalists; all impious persons, impenitent sinners, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?"”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.”

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

“For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2, Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, pride, vainglory, presumption, &c. his engines, fasting, solitariness, hope, fear, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 2, subsection 3, Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

“I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.”

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

“What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 2, subsection 4, Symptoms of Despair, Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, Anxiety, Horror of Conscience, Fearful Dreams and Visions.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”

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

“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base”

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The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.”

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Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2, Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, pride, vainglory, presumption, &c. his engines, fasting, solitariness, hope, fear, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III