“ And there never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains: their most universal quality is diversity. ”
 Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1580). copy citation

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“Such as love physic, may also have good, great, and convincing considerations; I do not hate opinions contrary to my own: I am so, far from being angry to see a discrepancy betwixt mine and other men's judgments, and from rendering myself unfit for the society of men, from being of another sense and party than mine, that on the contrary (the most general way that nature has followed being variety, and more in souls than bodies, forasmuch as they are of a more supple substance, and more susceptible of forms) I find it much more rare to see our humours and designs jump and agree. And there never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains: their most universal quality is diversity.
BOOK THE THIRD CHAPTER I——OF PROFIT AND HONESTY No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on't is, when a man labours to play the fool: «Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit.»” source

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