Robert Burton

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which read more

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted
myriads of people: they go commonly together.

'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they
may: and as Praxiteles did by his read more

'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they
may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy
face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more
as bad in a moment.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

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

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.

I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.