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.
VOLTAIREOur wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Common sense is not so common.
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