It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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