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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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