said Cacambo.

"Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong."

then perchance cynicism is the madness of maintaining all is wrong when some things are right

There is a good reason why, out of his 2000+ books, we only bother reading one.

I bought the French version in high school but now I'm several years out of school and never read it and forgot any knowledge of French I had to begin with. I guess I'll never read it now.