Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire

Candide: Or Optimism

Voltaire with John Butt (Translator)

144 pages first pub 1759 (editions)

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this optimism concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the all for the best approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to...

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