Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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