Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
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Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, A great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness, a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison.Robert Burton
The rich are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.
Robert Burton
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
If there is a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
Robert Burton
John. Mayor, in the first book of his 'History of Scotland,' contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain.... And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.
Robert Burton
Out of too much learning become mad.
Robert Burton
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