If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.