I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.