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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

“Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."”

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

“The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.”

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

“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 4, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Section 2, member 3, subsection 13, Love of Gaming, &c. and pleasures immoderate; Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“A good conscience is a continual feast.”

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

“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

Ed. 6, p. 40.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

“As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Women wear the breeches.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“All poets are mad.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

“Rob Peter, and pay Paul.”

Robert Burton libro L'anatomia della malinconia

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

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