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“had no need of a guide to learn ignorance”
“You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.”
“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.”
“A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be n...”
“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”
“Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.”
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without ...”
“If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.”
“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks co...”
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
“mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have ma...”
“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
“when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.”
“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
“What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin.”
“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.”
