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Single Idea 20481
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech
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Full Idea
Nothing which a gentleman says can seem worse than the shame of his unsaying it under duress from authority.
Gist of Idea
Nothing we say can be worse than unsaying it in the face of authority
Source
Michel de Montaigne (III.10 On Restraining your Will [1580], p.1153)
Book Ref
Montaigne,Michel de: 'The Complete Essays', ed/tr. Screech,M.A. [Penguin 1987], p.1153
A Reaction
The point is that you have to fight every day for free speech, because no matter what the law says, there are always people in power who want to shut you up.
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20480
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There is not much point in only becoming good near the end of your life
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20482
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Virtue inspires Stoics, but I want a good temperament
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20481
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Nothing we say can be worse than unsaying it in the face of authority
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Apart from the fear, dying is an easy duty
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6258
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Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product
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6259
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Why can't a wise man doubt everything?
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6260
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Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements
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6261
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The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries
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6262
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We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features
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6263
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No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air
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22269
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We must fight fiercely to hang on to the few pleasures which survive into old age
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