Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.