{"author":"Robert Burton","author_id":"Robert+Burton","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["alone","hermit","people","public","quiet","solitary","solitude"],"id":8175,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["hell","never","married "],"id":20954,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"Employment... Is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["happiness"],"id":68662,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"If the world will be gulled  let it be gulled.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["deception"],"id":85761,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["sun","moon","wealth "],"id":98392,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"They are proud in humility  proud that they are not proud.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["character","personality"],"id":100025,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["centaurs","gorgons","human-kind","man"],"id":116058,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["love","life","nature "],"id":148114,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["books","knowledge","melancholy","sadness"],"id":160506,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"A quiet mind cureth all.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["mind","quiet "],"id":183869,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}