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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reasonbecause it clashes with our own.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: 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.

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.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: 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.

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

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

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

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke quotes: No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

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