Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. — Robert Burton Anger Copy Share Image
If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart — Robert Burton Heart Copy Share Image
“The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight.” — Robert Burton Eyes Copy Share Image
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. — Robert Burton Candle Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Autonomy Copy Share Image
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some… — Robert Burton Law and lawyers Copy Share Image
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy. — Robert Burton Fortune Copy Share Image
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. — Robert Burton Love Copy Share Image
“they swell in this life as if they were immortal, and demigods, for want of understanding.” — Robert Burton Demigods Copy Share Image
“And yet with crimes to us unknown, Our sons shall mark the coming age their own,” — Robert Burton Sons Copy Share Image
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. — Robert Burton Ancient Copy Share Image
Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are… — Robert Burton Discontent Copy Share Image
“A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still… — Robert Burton Conscience Copy Share Image
Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods:… — Robert Burton Drink Copy Share Image
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton Bait Copy Share Image
Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart… — Robert Burton Agony Copy Share Image
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel… — Robert Burton Ambition Copy Share Image
“If heaven be so fair,the sun so fair, how much fairer shall He be that made them fair? For by the greatness… — Robert Burton Beauty Copy Share Image
“When they are young, they would be old, and old, young.{244} Princes commend a private life; private men itch after honour: a… — Robert Burton Life Copy Share Image
“Judges give judgment according to their own advantage, doing manifest wrong to poor innocents to please others. Notaries alter sentences, and for… — Robert Burton False witness Copy Share Image
“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will… — Robert Burton Ethics Copy Share Image
“When I lie waking all alone, Recounting what I have ill done, My thoughts on me then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me… — Robert Burton Fear Copy Share Image
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is… — Robert Burton Alone Copy Share Image
“To The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this… — Robert Burton Books Copy Share Image
“Hippocrates asked the reason why he laughed. He told him, at the vanities and the fopperies of the time, to see men… — Robert Burton Laughed Copy Share Image
“are in men! When they are poor and needy, they seek riches, and when they have them, they do not enjoy them,… — Robert Burton Difficult things Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified… — Robert Burton Books Copy Share Image
![“They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.” quote by Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68e/robert-burton-10069_ambition_they-i-e-ambitious-men-may-not-cease-but_1248849.jpg)
![“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the…” quote by Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18b/robert-burton-10069_alone_i-am-not-poor-i-am-not-rich-nihil-est-ni_1599456.jpg)
![“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vain-glory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they…” quote by Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/792/robert-burton-10069_books_e-very-man-hath-liberty-to-write-but-few_213260.jpg)