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That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be forever applied to melancholy men, A fabis abstinete, eat no beans.
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I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.
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Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
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All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
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Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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Born:
February 8, 1577
Died:
January 25, 1640
(aged 62)
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