“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 buena conciencia es una fiesta continua.”
Fuente: Citado en Windmills, Planeta . Libera tus talentos. Editorial Lulu.com, 2014. ISBN 9781312400696. p. 91.
“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.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Fuente: N: revista de cultura, números 240-252. Colaborador Clarin (Firm). Editorial Clarin, 2008. p. 141.
Fuente: Anatomía de la Melancolía.
Robert Burton libro 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.
“They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
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.”
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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
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Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 4, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
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 Anatomía de la melancolía
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 Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 4, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
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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 Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
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 Anatomía de la melancolía
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
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 Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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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.”
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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.”
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 11.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“They do not live but linger.”
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Can build castles in the air.”
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Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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Section 1, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 12.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
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Section 2, member 4, Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 1, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader