Book: Zadig or Destiny

Events in this world cannot happen, as would most reasonable people.

Better to take the risk and justify the guilty than condemn the innocent.

Against his house lived one of Arimas whose coarse face bore the imprint of an evil soul.

... and soon acquired a skill to find a thousand differences where other men see only uniformity.

... his natural inclinations, beautiful in themselves, were still more advanced education. Despite the wealth and youth, he knew how to subdue their passions, no matter what is never claimed, considered himself always right and knew how to respect human weakness.

Bile makes a person irritable and sick, but without bile man could not live. Everything is dangerous - and all you need.

Zadig saw the minute human beings as what they really are, that is insects that eat each other on a small lump of dirt.

There is no evil which does not cause good.

Mind - a durable delusion.

Case to do evil predtavlyaetsya hundred times a day, and do good - only once a year.

Pride is an inflated air balloon and if it pierce him out of the storm.

They say that at the sight of someone else's grief people feel less miserable; according to Zoroaster, it's not self-love, and domestic needs. For the unfortunate human being in such cases, the similarity of the provisions. The joy of the lucky man would be abusive, but two accidents like two weak trees that are leaning on each other, confront the storm.

There's nothing more long, because it is a measure of eternity, nothing shorter, because it is not enough to execute our projects; nothing is slower for waiting, nothing more rapid eating for pleasure; it reaches infinity at a great and lasts infinitely small; people ignore them, but when it lost regret; everything happens in time; it consumes the unworthy in the memory of posterity, and give immortality to the great.