... place at Jesuit College Luis-le-Grand, where he studied Latin and Greek literature and Drama. His father wanted him to pursue a degree in law, but Voltaire chose to devote his life to writing. Before writing Candide, Voltaire went through a lot in his life that probably inspired his seemingly radical views on life, and the rejection of "Optimism-, the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm ... Leibniz, which sates that the universe is rational. Voltaire found it impossible to justify the actions of the universe after witnessing the great earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 ... when Thunder-ten-tronc...

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