Let them talk… (Montaigne / Plato)
October 16th, 2006 | Published in Life, Quotes
Someone said to Plato: “Everyone is speaking ill of you.” “Let them talk,” he said, “I will live in such a fashion as to make them change their tune.”
–Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), “On Some Verses of Virgil” in The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate (1994), p. 79