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

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

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”

“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”

“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?”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”

“Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.”