The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.
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
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
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
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 the… - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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 the…
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at? - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
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
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.
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
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.
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all… - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all…
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 inadequa… - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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 inadequa…
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