voltaire

“ What signifies it, said the Dervish, whether there be evil or good? When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? ”

“ If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer. ”

“ But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties. You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. ”

“ Cacambo, who had seen many of these kinds of adventures, was not discouraged. He stripped the baron of his Jesuits habit and put it upon Candide. ”

“ Men...must have corrupted nature a little, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounder cannons or bayonets, and they have made bayonets and cannons to destroy each other ”

“ It is demonstrable, said he, that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. ”

“ Misfortunes confer their own privileges. ”

“ That is very well put . . . but let us cultivate our garden. ”

“ All that is is for the best. If there is a volcano at Lisbon it cannot be elsewhere. It is impossible that things should be other than they are; for everything is right. ”

“ So pleasant it is to be on the move, to get ourselves noticed back home, and to boast of what we have seen on our travels, that our two happy wanderers resolved to be happy no longer. ”