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.
VoltaireOriginality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
VoltaireWe are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
VoltaireIt is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Voltaire