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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know lessen human beings of which they know nothing.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
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