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 have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
More Voltaire Quotes
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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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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Let us cultivate our garden.
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