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Quotation from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
“Dejection, subjects a man to causelesse fears; which is a Madnesse commonly called MELANCHOLY, apparent also in divers manners; as in haunting of solitudes, and graves; in superstitious behaviour; and in fearing some one, some another particular thing”
Leviathan, Part I, Ch. VIII (1651 text (original spelling))
Hobbes's definition of melancholy as one of the two root forms of madness, the other being rage from pride.
Citation: "Dejection, subjects a man to causelesse fears; which is a Madnesse commonly called MELANCHOLY, apparent also in divers manners; as in haunting of solitudes, and graves; in superstitious behaviour; and in fearing some one, some another particular thing" — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. VIII (1651 text (original spelling)). (id leviathan-q4)
Portrait: Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670), John Michael Wright, Public domain.
