Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
Common sense is not so common.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.