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Opinion is the queen of the world.
[Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.]
Opinion is the queen of the world.
[Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.]
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Facts are stubborn things.
Facts are stubborn things.
The deep slumber of a decided opinion.
The deep slumber of a decided opinion.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most read more
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, read more
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of read more
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of nature.
[Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae
putanda est.]