“Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.”
John Ford (dramatist) (1586–1639) dramatist
Act III, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 282
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