I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

What is not in nature can never be true.