It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

Paradise is where I am

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

Clever tyrants are never punished.