“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.
“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”
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Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Birds of a feather will gather together.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 1, member 1, subsection 2, Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3, subsection 15, Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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Section 2, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7, A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 2, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 4, member 1, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 1, subsection 5, The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”
Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía
Section 2, member 3, subsection 2, Of the Force of Imagination.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I