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

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity