“Let us cultivate our garden.”

“I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.”

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin.”

“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.”

“Cela est bien, repondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.”

“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.”