All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.

All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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.]

He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.
[Fr., Il opine du bonnet comme un read more

He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.
[Fr., Il opine du bonnet comme un moine en Sorbonne.]

As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.

As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.

Facts are stubborn things.

Facts are stubborn things.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; read more

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.