If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
L'optimisme est la rage de soutenir que tout est bien quand on est mal.
I have seen so many extraordinary things that nothing seems extraordinary to me
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.
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.
Let us cultivate our garden.
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the grou...
We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness
Quizás sea esta absurda debilidad una de nuestras peores inclinaciones: porque ¿hay algo más estúpido que soportar un peso que en todo momento se quiere dejar en el suelo?, ¿odiar la existencia y al mismo tiempo aferrarse a ella?, y en fin, ¿ac...
Nos dirigimos a un mundo distinto decía Cándido-; sin duda debe ser allí donde todo está bien. Porque debemos reconocer que en el nuestro existen muchas cosas, en lo físico y en lo moral, que nos pueden hacer llorar.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natu...
