Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.