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 1 Pref  |    yet, unless an overweening opinion of myself may have made
 2 Praise| rather, as to be of any other opinion. For even the Stoics themselves
 3 Praise|     you all subscribe to this opinion, that nothing is better
 4 Praise|     the oracle, delivered his opinion that a wise man should abstain
 5 Praise|    disprove a common received opinion. Whereas on the contrary ’
 6 Praise|   foolish fancies.~And, in my opinion, next these may be reckoned
 7 Praise|       themselves happy in the opinion of their nobility. The Greeks,
 8 Praise|    since it only depends upon opinion. For so great is the obscurity
 9 Praise|       inconsiderable; but the opinion of it is easily taken up,
10 Praise|   they less happy in that new opinion they have taken up of being
11 Praise|  dunces. This, in the other’s opinion, is an absolute Alcaeus;
12 Praise|      are so happy in the good opinion of themselves that as soon
13 Praise|      being happy in their own opinion, and as if they dwelt in
14 Praise|     too so contrary to common opinion that those oracles of the
15 Praise|    them so tower in their own opinion when they speak most barbarously;
16 Praise|       St. Bernard seems in my opinion to follow when he interprets
17 Praise|      s so great contrarity of opinion between them, and that too