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Virtue Quotes by Voltaire
- Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
- Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
- The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- 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.
- Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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