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Humans Quotes by Voltaire
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- 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.
- The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
- The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
- Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
- So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of…
- One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is…
- It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
- But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
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