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

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

Dare to think for yourself.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.