Adultery Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adultery Evil Given Infidelity Stealing Theft
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples ,… — Jaachynma Agu N.E Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Reality has a way of bursting the bubble of illusion, and an affair is one of the biggest illusions that anyone can experience in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once a cheater always remain's a cheater, if you love your partner, why cheat? That dosent makes any sense, that can tell that you… — Brittannia Calder Copy Share Image
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root? — William Congreve Copy Share Image
L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I was thinking of murder, mutilation and dessert like Ignacia Sandoval’s instructions for delectable empanadas made of minced mother-in-law’s tongue (said to induce peace… — Sandra Ramos O'Briant Copy Share Image
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go… — John Owen Copy Share Image