What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
Only your friends steal your books.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.