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There is no weakness without its admirer, so be not discomfited because your ways displease some, for they will not fail to be pleasing to others: nor let their approval of them make you vain, for still others will condemn them.

[No hay defecto sin afecto, ni se ha de desconfiar porque no agraden las cosas a algunos, que no faltarán otros que las aprecien; ni aun el aplauso de estos le sea materia al desvanecimiento, que otros lo condenarán.]

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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Gracián, Baltasar - The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)] | WIST Quotations

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A quotation from Baltasar Gracián

As many tastes as heads, and as different.

[Tantos son los gustos como los rostros, y tan varios.]

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)]

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Gracián, Baltasar - The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)] | WIST Quotations

As many tastes as heads, and as different. [Tantos son los gustos como los rostros, y tan varios.] (Source (Spanish)). Alternate translations: There are as many Opinions as Faces, and as great difference amongst the one as the other. [Flesher ed. (1685)] So many men, so many tastes, all different.…

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A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man! I say, either agree with me or take a hike! I’m right, period! End of discussion!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16)

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A quotation from Molly Ivins

There is a batty degree of triumphalism loose in this country right now. We are brushing off world opinion as though it mattered not a whit what other people think of us.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2002-11-19), “Blast from the Past,” Creators Syndicate column

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There is a batty degree of triumphalism loose in this country right now. We are brushing off world opinion as though it mattered not a whit what other people think of us.

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A quotation from Ben Franklin

Men differ daily, about things which are subject to Sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1743 ed.)

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Men differ daily, about things which are subject to Sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not much more so.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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Essay (1878-03), "Crabbed Age and Youth," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37 - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not much more so. Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 2 (1881)

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A quotation from Montaigne

And there were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

[Et ne fut jamais au monde, deux opinions pareilles, non plus que deux poils, ou deux grains. Leur plus universelle qualité, c’est la diversité.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1579), “Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers [De la ressemblance des enfans aux peres], Essays, Book 2, ch. 37 (2.37) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jan 15, 2025

A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):

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Hate not Opinions for being contrary to thy own, nor be angry to see a Difference between thine and other Men’s Judgment. Thou art not bound to rectify all Men’s Mistakes. And it is not certain, but thou thy self mayst be in the wrong.
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