Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Quotes

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It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Mean, Men, Differences

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

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Beauty, Examination, Increase

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Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

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Hate, Fire, Opposites

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Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

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Laughter, Men, Creatures

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We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

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Selfishness, Reason, Discovering

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Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Ambition, Men, Two

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How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

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Men, Generosity, Giving

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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

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Errors, Roots, Comfort

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Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

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Men, People, Prejudice

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Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

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Men, Speech, Parrots

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Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

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Fire, Wit

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Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

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Pleasure, Young

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The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

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Truth, Eye, Mind

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No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

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Men, Deceived, Assessment

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O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

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Vanity, Law, Sick

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Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

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Politics, Hunger, Folly

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Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

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Fire, People, Masters

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The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

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Kings, Kingdoms, Slave

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Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

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Love, Sacrifice

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How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

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Ignorance, Perfection, Admiration

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There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

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Passion, Ambition, Character

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No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Women, Possession, Tenderness

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We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Deception, Deceived

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Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

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Looks, Genius

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One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

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Country, Men, Practice

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Born: October 3, 1554
Died: September 30, 1628
Occupation: 1st Baron Brooke
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