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.

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

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked

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

Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.

The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.