Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.