“Uno no se enamoró nunca, y ése fue su infierno. Otro sí, y ésa fue su condena.”
Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 83.
Robert Burton fue un clérigo y erudito inglés, profesor de la Universidad de Oxford, que ha pasado a la posteridad por su largo ensayo La anatomía de la melancolía , considerado obra capital de las letras británicas. Wikipedia
“Uno no se enamoró nunca, y ése fue su infierno. Otro sí, y ésa fue su condena.”
Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 83.
“Por nuestra ignorancia no sabemos las cosas necesarias; por el error las sabemos mal.”
Fuente: Citado en Calvo, Cristóbal M. Sectas. El universo de las religiones presuntas: Manual de alerta. Editorial Samarcanda, 2016. ISBN 9781524303105
“Una palabra hiere más profundamente que una espada.”
Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 204.
“Allí donde Dios tiene un templo, el demonio suele levantar una capilla.”
Fuente: Diccionario de citas. Colaborador Luis Señor. Editorial Espasa Calpe, 2007. ISBN 978-84-6702-374-9. p. 237.
“Nada más peligroso para los hombres comunes que la flatulencia de los monarcas.”
Fuente: N: revista de cultura, números 240-252. Colaborador Clarin (Firm). Editorial Clarin, 2008. p. 141.
Fuente: Anatomía de la Melancolía.
Fuente: Citado en Godoy Haeberle, Alejandra. Te amo, pero no te deseo. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Chile, 2013. ISBN 9789562583954.
Fuente: Anatomía de la Melancolía.
“Si existe el infierno en la tierra, cabe encontrarlo en el corazón de un hombre triste.”
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
“Una buena conciencia es una fiesta continua.”
Fuente: Citado en Windmills, Planeta . Libera tus talentos. Editorial Lulu.com, 2014. ISBN 9781312400696. p. 91.
“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”
Fuente: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“What can't be cured must be endured.”
Section 2, member 3.
Variante: What can't be cured must be endured.
Fuente: The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”
Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“I light my candle from their torches.”
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.”
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.
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Section 2, member 3, subsection 7, Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Contexto: 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 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.”
Fuente: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
Fuente: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”
Fuente: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
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.”
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Section 2, member 2, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Many things happen between the cup and the lip.”
Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
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.”
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.”
Section 4, member 2, subsection 6, Cure of Despair by Physic, Good Counsel, Comforts, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III