It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.