William Golovlev

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.”
― Voltaire, Candide