“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”

“The only way to make men speak well of us is to do it.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“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.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

“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.”