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1 " I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste. "
― Voltaire , Candide and Other Stories
2 " For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground? "
3 " What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly. "
4 " self-esteem is a balloon filled with wind, from which great tempests surge when it is pricked "
5 " It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least "
6 " If one doesn't get what one wants in one world, one can always get it in another "
