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21 " Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. "
― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary
22 " I leave there, and I say to my husband: "If you are without sin, shave me, imprison me, take my property; but if you have committed more sins than I have, it is for me to shave you, to have you imprisoned, and to seize your fortune. In justice these things should be equal. "
23 " In short, the alphabet was the origin of all man's knowledge, and of all his errors. "
24 " beauty is often very relative, just as what is decent in Japan is indecent in Rome, and what is fashionable in Paris, is not fashionable in Pekin; and he saved himself the trouble of composing a long treatise on beauty. "
25 " The beauty which strikes the senses merely, the imagination, and that which is called "intelligence," is "
26 " It needs twenty years to lead man from the plant state in which he is within his mother's womb, and the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of the reason begins to appear. It has needed thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. "
27 " It is, it seems to me, to stop one's eyes and understanding to maintain that there is no design in nature; and if there is design, there is an intelligent cause, there exists a God. People "
28 " if a philosopher wishes to be useful to human society, he must announce a God. "
29 " But, once again," persisted the European, "what state would you choose?" The Brahmin answered: "The state where only the laws are obeyed." "That is an old answer," said the councillor. "It is none the worse for that," said the Brahmin. "Where is that country?" asked the councillor. "We must look for it," answered the Brahmin. "
30 " Ha sido un ejemplo singular de la estupidez humana creer durante mucho tiempo que los judíos constituyeron una nación que había enseñado a todas las demás, cuando su mismo historiador Josefo confiesa que fue todo lo contrario. "
31 " ABEJAS . La especie de las abejas es superior a la raza humana en cuanto extrae de su cuerpo una sustancia útil, mientras que todas nuestras secreciones son despreciables y no hay una sola que no haga desagradable al género humano. "
32 " As to fictions which represent nothing, teach nothing, and from which nothing results, are they anything more than falsities? And if they are incoherent and heaped together without choice, are they anything better than dreams? "
33 " Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Quienes creen que el dinero lo hace todo terminan haciendo todo por dinero" (Voltaire) "
34 " Lois de convention que tout cela, usages arbitraires, modes qui passent : l'essentiel demeure toujours. "
35 " Algunos doctos sostienen que debemos a los griegos el emblema de los cuernos, porque los griegos designan con la denominación de macho cabrío al esposo de la mujer que es lasciva como una cabra. En efecto, los griegos llaman a los bastardos hijos de cabra. "