“Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.”

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”

“You're a bitter man," said Candide.That's because I've lived," said Martin.”

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”

“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”

“my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame”

“What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.”