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.
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
It is only through timidity that states are lost.