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

Novel · Satire

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

In the original French

Si c'est ici le meilleur des mondes possibles, que sont donc les autres?

Voltaire
Candide · 1759
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Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
Problem of evil
Statement type
Question
Genre
Satire
Medium
Novel
Time
1759Age of Enlightenment
Person
Voltaire
Provenance
Current citation
Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 6.
Original citation
Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 6.

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