Frases de Robert Burton
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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  

✵ 8. febrero 1577 – 25. enero 1640
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Frases célebres de Robert Burton

“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.

“Quien se desploma desde lo alto de una montaña no corre tanto peligro como quien se hunde en el golfo del amor.”

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.

Robert Burton: Frases en inglés

“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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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

“A good conscience is a continual feast.”

Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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

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

Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía

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 Anatomía de la melancolía

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

“Women wear the breeches.”

Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía

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

“All poets are mad.”

Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía

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

“Rob Peter, and pay Paul.”

Robert Burton libro Anatomía de la melancolía

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