“I light my candle from their torches.”
Section 2, member 5, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Quotes from book
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621, but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.
“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”
Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“What can't be cured must be endured.”
Section 2, member 3.
Variant: What can't be cured must be endured.
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.”
Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
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