The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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.