"There is scarce any passion so heartily decried……" — 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."
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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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20 Quotes by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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