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Quotation from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
“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”
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus Junior to the Reader (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638))
Burton's self-portrait as a collegiate student living among books at Christ Church.
Citation: "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" — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus Junior to the Reader (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638)). (id the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q2)
Portrait: Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, Gilbert Jackson, Public domain.
