Frasi di Robert Burton
Robert Burton
Data di nascita: 8. Febbraio 1577
Data di morte: 25. Gennaio 1640
Robert Burton è stato un saggista inglese.
Frasi Robert Burton
„L'ozio è un'appendice della nobiltà.“
— Robert Burton
citato in Focus, n. 49, p. 120
„Infarciscono i loro libri magri del grasso di altre opere.“
— Robert Burton
citato in Focus, n. 77, p. 146
„I confronti sono odiosi.“
— Robert Burton
citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 296
„Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both.“
— Robert Burton
Context: 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.
Section 2, member 3, subsection 7, Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
„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
Context: 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.
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
„[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.“
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
„He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.“
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
„Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.“
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
„If you like not my writing, go read something else.“
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
„What cannot be cured must be endured.“
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
