"Yes," said Candide, "and I have seen worse than all that; and yet a learned man, who had the misfortune to be hanged, taught me that everything was marvelously well, and that these evils you are speaking of were only so many shades in a beautiful picture."
Candide lui répliqua: J'ai vu pis; mais un sage, qui depuis a eu le malheur d'être pendu, m'apprit que tout cela est à merveille; ce sont des ombres à un beau tableau.