Business is the salt of life.
Optimism, said Cacambo, What is that? Alas! replied Candide, It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.
Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.