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What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong. — Voltaire

What's optimism? said Cacambo.
Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. — Voltaire

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them? — Voltaire

You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. — John Green

There can be no effect without a cause," modestly answered Candide; "the whole is necessarily concatenated and arranged for the best. — Voltaire

You are very hard of belief," said Candide. "I have lived," said Martin. — Voltaire

Riches either serve or govern the possessor. — Horace

All that is very well," answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden. — Voltaire

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. — Voltaire

Beautiful maiden," answered Candide, "when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all reflection. — Voltaire

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire

My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do. — Voltaire

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. — Voltaire

Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad. — Voltaire

Fairest lady," said Candide, "when a man is in love, jealous, and whipped by the Inquisition, he no longer knows what he's doing. — Voltaire

Love is not an imagination but a radiating light from the heart. — Debasish Mridha

Your parents are your projection-nothing more. — Byron Katie

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. — Samuel Johnson

As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power. — Erich Fromm

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him. — Voltaire

Right is right, even if no one else does it. — Juliette Gordon Low

PARENTS FIRST MET they were — Mohsin Hamid

You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin. — Voltaire

Love is the bond of perfection. — John Winthrop

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. — Voltaire

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey

What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly. — Voltaire