“Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)”
“It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.”
“No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”
“No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.”
“The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.”
“If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.”
“But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.”
“I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]”
“There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.”
“No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.”
“Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.”
“Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.”
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