"The Portable Voltaire" [.]

[fiefoe]

• Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. [P. D.]
  
• Ab assuetis non fit passio - habit does not make passion. [P. D.]
  
• Never was anything so gallant, so well accoutred, so brilliant, and so finely disposed as the two armies. The trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon made such harmony as never was heard in Hell itself. The entertainment began by a discharge of cannon, which, in the twinkling of an eye, laid flat about 6,000 men on each side. The musket bullets swept away, out of the best of all possible worlds, nine or ten thousand scoundrels that infested its surface. The bayonet was next the sufficient reason of the deaths of several thousands. The whole might amount to thirty thousand souls. Candide trembled like a philosopher, and concealed himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.
• The lament of the one-buttocked old woman: I have been a hundred times upon the point of killing myself, but still I was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is, perhaps, one of the dangerous principles implanted in our nature.
• Misfortunes confer certain rights.
  
• There is pleasure in not being pleased.
  

It gives one pause when the different translations are compared. Witness this line concerning the making of a good playwright:
a: he must be a great poet but not let any character in his play appear to be a poet.
b: he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece.