"Opinion is, as it were, the queen..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
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“Continued eloquence is wearisome.”
“We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.”
“Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.”
More on Opinion
“The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.”
“I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.”
“What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.”