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.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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