Candide Quotes

• Me gustaría saber qué es peor: ser violado cien veces por piratas, que te corten una nalga, correr el guante de los búlgaros, ser azotado y ahorcado en un auto-da-fe, ser disecado y tener que remar en una galera -en resumen, sufrir todas las miserias que hemos padecido cada uno de nosotros- o simplemente quedarnos aquí sentados sin hacer nada...". Es una pregunta difícil -dijo Cándido-.

  Voltaire

  Running, Cutting, Pirate

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

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, Optimism, Maintaining

  Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire (2004). “Candide (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.48, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Todo es para bien en el mejor de los mundos posibles.

  Voltaire

  Arte, Filosofía

  1759 Candide, cap.30.

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• 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

  Soul, Comfort, Tender Love

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

  Voltaire

  Mad, Purpose, Earth

  Voltaire (2003). “Candide”, p.75, Bantam Classics

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• Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

  Voltaire

  Jardín

  Voltaire (2015). “Candide”, p.123, Booklassic

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

  Voltaire

  Men, Bitter, Said

  "Candide, O, El Optimismo". Libro de Voltaire, 1759.

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• All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

  Voltaire

  Men, Liberty, Encounters

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE’S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The Princess of Babylon, The Sage and the Atheist, The Man of Forty Crowns, Bababec, Ancient Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…”, p.70, e-artnow

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

  Voltaire

  Life Is, Pessimist, Said

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

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• Debemos cultivar nuestro propio jardín.

  Voltaire

  Curación, Jardín, Edén

  1759 Candide, cap.30.

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• Mi pasión por la jardinería puede parecer a algunos egoísta, o simplemente un acto de resignación ante los abrumadores problemas que acosan al mundo. No es ni lo uno ni lo otro. He descubierto que cada jardín es justo lo que Voltaire proponía en Cándido: un microcosmos de una sociedad justa y bella.

  Andrew Weil

  Beautiful, Selfish, Passion

  "One Simple Resolution: Gardening" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

  Voltaire

  Children, Evil, Boredom

  Voltaire (2017). “Candide (Français Anglais édition illustré): Candide (French English Edition illustrated)”, p.229, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Optimism, Important, Way

  Fuente: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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

  Voltaire

  Dog, Monkeys, Miserable

  Voltaire (2006). “Candide: Or Optimism”, p.69, Yale University Press

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• Vivimos en el mejor de los mundos posibles

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Filosofía, Filosófico, Optimista

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). "Discurso sobre la metafísica y la monadología", Cosimo, Inc.

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• Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

  Lionel Trilling

  Humor, Littles, Weapons

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• All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

  Voltaire

  Garden, Feet, America

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• If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, World, Ifs

  Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• No soy Cándido, ni el Dr. Pangloss, pero sabemos que la fe mueve montañas.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Moving, Mountain, Drs

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Nuestro trabajo nos preserva de tres grandes males: el cansancio, el vicio y la necesidad.

  Voltaire

  Work, Evil, Vices

  Voltaire (2016). "Candide", p.97, Xist Publishing.

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• Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

  Voltaire

  Beautiful, Heart, Kissing

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

  Voltaire

  People, Atheism, Monk

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.192, Penguin

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• I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

  Voltaire

  Taste, Suits, Enjoy

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

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• Cuando su alteza envía un barco a Egipto, ¿se preocupa de si los ratones de a bordo están a sus anchas o no?

  Voltaire

  Egypt, Doe, Boards

  Voltaire (2016). "Candide", p.97, Xist Publishing.

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• La vida de borracho de este tipo, creo, hace que Cándido parezca un amargado. ¿Sabe siquiera que la muerte existe?

  Jandy Nelson

  Ingenioso, Pensador, Borracho

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