All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

"That is well said," replied Candide, "but we must cultivate our garden

I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Dare to think for yourself.