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Michel de Montaigne

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Biography - Michel de Montaigne:

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is a French Renaissance writer and philosopher.
Born: 1533 - Died: 1592
Period:
16th century
Place of birth: France
France

I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?


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I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?



Translation

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(French, German)



French
Je pense avoir les opinions bonnes et saines; mais qui n'en croit autant des siennes?

German
Ich glaube, gute und gesunde Meinungen zu haben : Aber wer glaubt nicht eben das von den seinigen?




See also 

See also...



So many men, so many opinions.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Idiots: Those who do not think like us.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.




Quotes for: opinion


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Quotes for: opinion


Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.





Article X – No one may be disturbed for his opinions, even religious ones, provided that their manifestation does not trouble the public order established by the law.





Article XI – The free communication of thoughts and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man: any citizen thus may speak, write, print freely, except to respond to the abuse of this liberty, in the cases determined by the law.





We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.





Though men be much governed by interest; yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.





Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato / 











Quotes

Michel de Montaigne also said...


When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.





My trade and art is to live.












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