Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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.

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

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.