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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known wor...more

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowled...more

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

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I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am ignorant of everything; this state of affairs fills my...more

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invinci...more