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 imagine que la virginite pouvait etre une vertu.

Voltaire

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Virginity Patriarchy

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Voltaire

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Language

French

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

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Philosopher Writer

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France Europe

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

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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
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Philosophical Dictionary
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Philosophical literature
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Time
1764 1760s 18th century
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Voltaire. "Argent [Money]." Dictionnaire Philosophique [Philosophical Dictionary]. c. 1764.

Another quote from the 1750s

Haste makes Waste.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Haste Carelessness

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Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
Medium
Almanac
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1753 1750s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1753.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Another quote about Patriarchy

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

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Patriarchy

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Simone de Beauvoir
Source
The Second Sex
Genre
Historical literature Feminist literature
Language
French
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 1, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

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The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Love of money American character America

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, bk. 3. ch. 17.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, bk. 3. ch. 17.