Used book – Candide, complete text, Voltaire

"What is optimism? said Cacambo. - Alas! said Candide, it is the madness of maintaining that everything is well when one is in distress." Voltaire's most famous work, one of the most universally known French texts, demonstrates three things: that the world is in a bad state, and that it could be better, if we started by talking less nonsense. In the meantime, it's better to laugh than to cry, while cultivating our garden. Candide combines philosophy and comedy.