It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
C'est une des superstitions de l'esprit humain d'avoir imaginé que la virginité pouvait être une vertu.
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Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750) | Note: This quotation and the three that follow directly below are from the so-called Leningrad Notebook, also known as Le Sottisier; it is one of several posthumously published notebooks of Voltaire.