The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice.
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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