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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

“They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 3, subsection 14, Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, etc., Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“One religion is as true as another.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 4, member 2, subsection 1, Religious Melancholy in defect; parties affected, Epicures, Atheists, Hypocrites, worldly secure, Carnalists; all impious persons, impenitent sinners, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 4, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2, Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, pride, vainglory, presumption, &c. his engines, fasting, solitariness, hope, fear, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 2, subsection 3, Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 4, member 2, subsection 4, Symptoms of Despair, Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, Anxiety, Horror of Conscience, Fearful Dreams and Visions.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2, Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, pride, vainglory, presumption, &c. his engines, fasting, solitariness, hope, fear, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Like the watermen that row one way and look another.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Christ himself was poor… And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 3, subsection 11.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“They do not live but linger.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Can build castles in the air.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 1, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 3, subsection 12.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“All places are distant from heaven alike.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 4, Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 1, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Our wrangling lawyers… are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,—some of them in hell.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

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