Voltaire Quotes About Virtue
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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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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.
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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
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Fear could never make virtue.
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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.
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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.
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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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