“The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.”

“What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.”

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”

“If one doesn't get what one wants in one world, one can always get it in another”

“What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin.”

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”

“It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least”