[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them,…

Quote byRobert Burton · 1577–1640

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part I, Section 2, member 3, subsection 10..

English (original)

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.

— Robert Burton

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.