A scholar's melancholy
How many poor scholars have lost their wits, or become dizzards, neglecting all worldly affairs and their own health, esse and bene esse [being and well-being], to gain knowledge for which, after all their pains, in this world's esteem they are accounted ridiculous and silly fools, idiots, asses, and (as oft they are) rejected, contemned, derided, doting, and mad!
(Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. 1, Sec. 2, Mem. 3, Subs. 15, p 303)
(Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. 1, Sec. 2, Mem. 3, Subs. 15, p 303)