Thomas Browne cytaty
Thomas Browne: Cytaty po angielsku
“Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.”
Section 25
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.”
Źródło: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
“He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.”
Part I, Section XXXIV
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)
“All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.”
Section 16
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.”
Section 10
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“There is no road or ready way to virtue.”
Section 55
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
Źródło: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70
Section 44
Compare: "I know death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to take their exits.", John Webster, Duchess of Malfi (1623); Act IV, scene ii.
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.”
Section 25
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.”
Section 11
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“Rich with the spoils of Nature.”
Section 8
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.”
Section 4
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
