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

“All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.”

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”

“It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.”

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”

“It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least”

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