It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.