“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?” MenCreaturesLaughterDeserveLaughedPower Of Laughter Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?” IfsMenWayArtFeelingsFallCoursesEnjoyNaturalPayAdvantagePerfectionSuperiorsImperfectionRefinement Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.” MenCharacterStudyComparisonUniformsInconsistentUniformityInconsistency Author: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.” MenPlaySportsPrinciplesDeceptionDeceivingNature Of Man Author: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 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.” MenMindMeanTwoIdeasDifferentLanguageDifferencesProduceVarietyCharacteristicsInadequateDifferent Minds Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.” MenWomenPossessionTendernessManhoodMen Women Author: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.” PeopleMenViolenceProvePrejudice Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“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.” IfsMenWorldGivingLittlesCountryReasonPracticeDegreesFindingsGenerosityReason WhyGenerousCatchingWhy MeSmallpox Author: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 themselves!” MenGivingCertainPerfectPureGenerosityGenerousSuperiorityInferiority Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“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.” MenMindMayCharacterDesirePassionFoundVirtueGreaterColorAmbitionVicesSuperiorsVirtuousSuperiorityViciousScarceSatiristMoralist Author: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.” MenMayTwoEqualAmbitionRageMerit Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.” MenViewsFiguresStrangePoint Of ViewRepresentation Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“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?” MenShouldSaidCreaturesSpeechCapableRationalParrots Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.” MenWellsMightBoysOld Man Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.” MenDeceivedAssessmentSelf AssessmentBeing Deceived Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“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.” MenCountryAsksPrejudiceDenyForeign Countries Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
