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- It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The superfluous is very necessary.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- "Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- 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
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Letter to Frederick, 1767
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