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"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the ob — Voltaire

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

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Où est le prince assez instruit pour savoir que depuis dix-sept cents ans la sec — Voltaire
Le superflu, chose très nécessaire. — Voltaire
Un bon mot ne prouve rien. — Voltaire
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. — Victor Hugo
The language of excitement is at best but picturesque merely. You must be calm b — Henry David Thoreau
A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bayt must be ready to face a life of austerity. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides th — Edward Young
Whatever is produced in haste goes easily to waste. — Saadi
When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past? — John Keble
O, nur eine freie Seele wird nicht alt. — Oh