Voltaire Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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  Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

• Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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  Law, Tyrants, Support

• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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  Birthday, Equality, Men

• It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Mind

  'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455

• 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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  Honesty, Fear, Integrity

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

• 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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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Would Be

• A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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  Honor, May, Virtue

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.167, Penguin

• 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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  Girl, Sex, Humorous

  Letter to M. Mariott, 28 March 1766

• Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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  Virtue

• 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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  Valentines Day, Love Is, Long

• 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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  Happy Times, History, Virtue

  Voltaire, John Morley, William F. Fleming, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1904). “The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history”

• I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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  Men, Virtue, Incapable

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4224, Delphi Classics

• 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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  Men, Action, Virtue

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

• 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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  Men, Order, Goal

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.166, Voltaire

• Fear could never make virtue.

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  Fear, Virtue

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.122

• 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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  Hope, Virtue, Should

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.318

• Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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  Men, Heaven, Appearance

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