Цитаты из книг — Роберт Бёртон

Люди рождаются в муках, живут без надежды, болезни их неисцелимы. Чем долее живут они на свете, тем горше им достается. Лишь смерть способна их утешить.

THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, WHAT IT IS, WITH ALL THE KINDS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, PROGNOSTICS, AND SEVERAL CURES OF IT. IN THREE PARTITIONS. WITH THEIR SEVERAL SECTIONS, MEMBERS, AND SUBSECTIONS, PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICALLY, HISTORICALLY OPENED AND CUT UP. BY DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR. WITH A SATIRICAL PREFACE, CONDUCING TO THE…

So that take melancholy in what sense you will, properly or improperly, in disposition or habit, for pleasure or for pain, dotage, discontent, fear, sorrow, madness, for part, or all, truly, or metaphorically, 'tis all one. Laughter itself is madness according to Solomon, and as St. Paul hath it, "Worldly sorrow brings…

And as that great captain Zisca 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, I doubt not but that these following lines, when they shall be recited, or hereafter read, will drive away melancholy (though I be gone) as much as Zisca's drum…

It is a disease of the soul on which I am to treat, and as much appertaining to a divine as to a physician, and who knows not what an agreement there is betwixt these two professions? A good divine either is or ought to be a good physician, a spiritual physician at least, as our Saviour calls himself, and was indeed, Mat.…

Our writings are as so many dishes, our readers guests, our books like beauty, that which one admires another rejects; so are we approved as men's fancies are inclined. Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli.. [the fate of books depends n the fancy of the reader].

Though there were many giants of old in physic and philosophy, yet I say with Didacus Stella, "A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself;" I may likely add, alter, and see farther than my predecessors; and it is no greater prejudice for me to indite after others, than for Aelianus…

"there is no end of writing of books," as the wiseman found of old, in this scribbling age, especially wherein "the number of books is without number," (as a worthy man saith,) "presses be oppressed," and out of an itching humour that every man hath to show himself, desirous of fame and honour (scribimus indocti…

If that severe doom of Synesius be true, "it is a greater offence to steal dead men's labours, than their clothes," what shall become of most writers? I hold up my hand at the bar among others, and am guilty of felony in this kind, habes confitentem reum, I am content to be pressed with the rest.

Unlike Erasmus’ famous work, this is no praise of folly; it is, however, a parade of them: every day in Burton’s year is St. Patrick’s, bands brag in the streets, beer is the only proffered drink, and the beer is green. Moreover the parade has a settled order of march; the word “anatomy” signifying its dissected…

Robert Burton may have momentarily put aside his pen on December 5, 1620, to declare his work done; however, since sales were solid and five fresh editions needed, he let his baby grow from gigantic to gargantuan. We have ourselves continued to manufacture material for his Melancholy, and were Burton as immortal as his…

To ridicule superstition or succumb to it, embrace the new learning or belabor it, celebrate change or condemn it, relate every tale or tell none; or, more characteristically, to quote, testify, enlarge upon every subject with such serious thoroughness there could be no response but laughter: in Robert Burton these…

INTRODUCTION DURING the early seventeenth century men everywhere in Europe were beginning to realize that the institutions that had seemed to offer them hope and keep them from care were actually making them fearful of their fate, and encouraging them to trade their lives for lies.

ROBERT BURTON (1577–1640) was born in Leicestershire and educated at Oxford, where he became librarian of Christ’s Church College, a position he held for life. He was also the vicar of St. Thomas, Oxford, and the rector of Seabrave, Lei- cestershire. The first edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy appeared in 1621 and was…

Знатной даме, проживавшей в том же Базеле, привелось увидеть зарезанную жирную свинью; когда ее стали разделывать, появившийся тотчас зловонный запах вызвал у этой женщины нестерпимое отвращение; присутствовавший при этом лекарь вздумал объяснять ей, что она мало чем отличается от этой свиньи, что и в ней столько же…

проповедник в Алькмааре в Голландии однажды, когда он, желая отдохнуть, гулял в поле, был неожиданно схвачен поносом или дизентерией, а посему вынужден был устремиться к близлежащей канаве, однако был застигнут там врасплох почтенными дамами, прихожанками его прихода, проходившими как раз мимо того места; священник был…

Какой путь вы изберете, что решите? Избрать духовное звание — но в мирском мнении это занятие презренное; стать юристом — но это значит быть сутягой, лекарем — [но моча — это постыдно]; а может быть, поэтом, то есть голодным посмешищем; а может, музыкантом, актером, школьным учителем — жалким горемыкой; или землепашцем —…