Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black... ...
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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become... ...
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?