Quotes from The Anatomy of Melancholy — Robert Burton
1577–1640 England
110 quotes
For I light my candle from their torches.
The fear of death is worse than death.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Out of too much learning become mad.
One religion is as true as another.
The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
Whil'st the poor Scholar foots it by their side.
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.
Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Burton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.