Candide Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candide Life
“Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness all our lives.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“The shrieks were coming from two quite naked girls, who were pursued by a pair of apes snapping at their bottoms. [...] So he… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
