Voltaire Quotes about Giving

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

Voltaire

Government, Giving, Opinion

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

Voltaire

Motivational, Giving, Answers

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Voltaire

Inspirational, Men, Giving

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

Voltaire

Christian, Religious, Giving

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

Voltaire

Giving, Pleasure, Kill Me

Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.69, Xist Publishing

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

Voltaire

Giving, Sage, Want

Voltaire (1780). “The Works of Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. With Notes. By T. Francklin ... T. Smollett, M.D., and Others. A New Edition”, p.69

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Voltaire

Love Is, Self, Giving

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

Voltaire

Failure, Giving, Individual

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

Voltaire

Queens, Giving, Faces

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Voltaire

Men, Sea, Giving

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Voltaire

Giving, Letters, Woe

Voltaire Quotes about Giving

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