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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could… — Voltaire

Personal journal

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

In the original French

C'est une des superstitions de l'esprit humain d'avoir imagine que la virginite pouvait etre une vertu.

Voltaire
1750
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1750
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Voltaire
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Voltaire. The Piccini Notebooks. c. 1738-1750.

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