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Optimism! said Cacambo, what is that? Alas! replied Candide, it is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.[Also known as:]Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Source:Chapter XIX
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  • Book: Candide
  • Writer: Voltaire
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction, Philosophy
  • Published: 1759
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