It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
Better is the enemy of the good.
Nature has always had more force than education.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
What a pessimist you are! exclaimed Candide.That is because I know what life is, said Martin.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.
In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
But for what purpose was the earth formed? asked Candide. To drive us mad, replied Martin.
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.