“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”

“Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?'Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?”

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”

“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ”

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

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”