Candide
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"Candide" Quotes

By Voltaire

classics | 194 pages | Published in 1993

ISBN_10: 0486276252
ISBN_13: 9780486276250

Quotes

All is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.

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We must cultivate our garden.

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It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end.

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Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.

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The human race will come to an end because it deserves it.

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I have only ever been happy when I was in love.

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We must take care of our garden.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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