That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.
Robert BurtonTag: books knowledge melancholy sadness
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 world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.
Robert BurtonTag: people solitude alone quiet public hermit solitary
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Robert BurtonTag: self-esteem self self-hatred self-loathing self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.
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