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- 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
- Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan
- True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- If we can't find something pleasant, we will at least find something new.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Zadig
- I have lost the half of myself – a soul for which mine was made.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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