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.
VOLTAIREEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Our 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.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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