Candide Quotes

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

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:evil work want

“Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities—you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:government contradiction

“it is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:writing thinking

“we must cultivate our garden.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:work

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:reading

“I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:books

“It is more likely . . . 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”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:humanity violence

“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:humanity equality

“it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:madness right wrong

“Come! your presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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