Everywhere in the world, the weak detest the strong and grovel before them. And the strong treat them like flocks of sheep to be sold for their meat and wool.
We are also to observe that upon our continent, this distemper is like religious controversy, confined to a particular spot.
Pangloss used to teach the science of metaphysico-theolo-cosmologo-noodleology.
The weak mind receives impressions without resistance, embraces opinions without examination, is alarmed without cause, and tends naturally to superstition.
I remained dying on a heap of dead.
Facciamo appena in tempo ad istruirci un poco che arriva la morte prima che abbiamo avuto il tempo di farci un po’ d’esperienza.
Misfortune gives sufficient excuse.
My dear miss,” said Candide, “when one is in love, jealous, and has been whipped by the Inquisition, one becomes a stranger to oneself.
Wherever you go in France, you will find that their three chief occupations are making love, backbiting, and talking nonsense.
What signifies it,” said the Dervish, “whether there be evil or good? When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?
Pangloss was professor of metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology.
Beautiful maiden,” answered Candide, “when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all reflection.
Zadig saw how extremely dangerous it sometimes is to appear too knowing, and therefore resolved, that on the next occasion of the like nature he would not tell what he had seen. Such.
The register, the attorneys, and bailiffs, went to his house with great formality to carry him back his four hundred ounces. They only retained three hundred and ninety-eight of them to defray the expenses of justice; and then their servants demanded their fees. Zadig.
What! my lord,” cried the fisherman, “and art thou then so unhappy, thou who bestowest favors?” “A hundred times more unhappy than thee,” replied Zadig. “But how is it possible,” said the good man, “that the giver can be more wretched than the receiver?” “Because,” replied Zadig, “thy greatest misery arose from poverty, and mine is seated in the heart.” “Did.
Things cannot be otherwise than they are and since, everything is made to serve and end, everything necessarily serves the best end.
If you have a mind to understand the English comedy, the only way to do this will be for you to go to England, to spend three years in London, to make yourself master of the English tongue, and to frequent the playhouse every night.
He assembled at his house the most worthy men, and the most beautiful ladies of Babylon. He gave them delicious suppers, often preceded by concerts of music, and always animated by polite conversation, from which he knew how to banish that affectation of wit, which is the surest method of preventing it entirely, and of spoiling the pleasure of the most agreeable society.
What is this optimism?” said Cacambo. “Alas!” said Candide, “it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.
If we cannot find our account in one world we shall in another. It is a great pleasure to see and do new things.