The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Quote by Voltaire
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
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Voltaire Quotes
- England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
- God is always on the side of the big battalions.
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
Best Quotes
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
- I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
- Abused patience turns to fury.
- God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.