"Candide" Quotes
A young man named Candide journeys through a series of absurd misfortunes while maintaining an optimistic outlook on life.
classics | 194 pages | Published in 1993
Quotes
All is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.
We must cultivate our garden.
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.
Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
The human race will come to an end because it deserves it.
I have only ever been happy when I was in love.
We must take care of our garden.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
