... trust in Islam and in Candide, and I"m not criticizing the religion in anyway. Since I was a child, I used to hear different sayings about being optimistic. After going to school and started studying the religion of Islam, I realized that most of those sayings come from the religion and from experience. What is optimism? Optimism doesn't have a scientific definition; it's simply expecting that good things ... ". . . but we must cultivate our garden" .When Voltaire wrote this novel, politics and the economy of France were suffering. Philosophers like Pangloss -a character in the novel- w...

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