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I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville

Out of mind as soon as out of sight. — Sir Fulke Greville

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. — Sir Fulke Greville

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

Envy is but the smoke of low estate,
Ascending still against the fortunate. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. — Sir Fulke Greville

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. — Sir Fulke Greville

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

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

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself
if I may be allowed the expression
than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

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

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

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men. — Sir Fulke Greville

True joy is only hope put out of fear. — Sir Fulke Greville

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. — Sir Fulke Greville

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

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

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. — Sir Fulke Greville

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. — Sir Fulke Greville

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. — Sir Fulke Greville

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

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well:
What they that choose their God do, who can tell? — Sir Fulke Greville

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

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

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

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

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

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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

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

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

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. — Sir Fulke Greville

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. — Sir Fulke Greville

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. — Sir Fulke Greville

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone. — Sir Fulke Greville

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage
always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others. — Sir Fulke Greville

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