Francois Marie Arouet Quotes

One goes to see a tragedy to be moved, to the opera one goes either for want of any other interest or to facilitate digestion.

God is on the side not of the big battalions, but of the best shots.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

This enormous dunghill.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot… In order to believe something, it is not enough that it should be possible.

This state which was called and is still called the Holy Roman Empire, was not in any way holy, or Roman or an Empire.

In fact, history is nothing but a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy puts out the fire.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

You know that these two nations have been at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and that they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth.

I am the best-tempered man there ever was, yet I have killed three men, and two of them were priests!

‘Well said’, Candide replied, ‘but we must cultivate our own garden.’

In this country it is considered a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others.