Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

Let us cultivate our garden.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.