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Knowledge Quotes by Voltaire
- All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
- Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
- 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.
- History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
- All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
- Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile genius, full of…
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