If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

History is fables agreed upon.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?