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 loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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