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.

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إن الذي يقول لك اعتقد ما أعتقده أنا وإلا لعنك الله‏، لا يلبث أن يقول‏:‏ اعتقد ما أعتقده أنا وإلا قتلتك‏.

Opinion rules the world, but in the long run it is the philosophers who shape opinion