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Robert Burton è stato un saggista inglese.

✵ 8. Febbraio 1577 – 25. Gennaio 1640
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“Infarciscono i loro libri magri del grasso di altre opere.”

citato in Focus, n. 77, p. 146

“L'ozio è un'appendice della nobiltà.”

citato in Focus, n. 49, p. 120
L'anatomia della malinconia

“I confronti sono odiosi.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 296

“Tutti i poeti sono pazzi.”

L'anatomia della malinconia

“Una coscienza a posto è una festa continua.”

L'anatomia della malinconia

“Una religione è tanto vera quanto un'altra.”

L'anatomia della malinconia

Robert Burton: Frasi in inglese

“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Origine: The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

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

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

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

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“I light my candle from their torches.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 3, subsection 7, Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Contesto: 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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Origine: The Anatomy of Melancholy

“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Origine: The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Origine: The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Make a virtue of necessity.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

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

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

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

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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 libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

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