Candide Quotes

“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:life

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, and the happiness of seeing Cunegonde once more.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:happiness virtue

“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:happiness

“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:God

“if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:men change character

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:power hate weakness

“Indeed, the law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbour, and such is the practice all over the world.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:nature killing

“Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything in the world is for the best.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:world progress

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:world contradiction

“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:evil work want

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