Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.