If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? Candide
A doctor should never try to cure the incurable. Beware of Pity
I believe all that is possible is striving to come into being; and all that can will, if man helps. Fruits of the Earth
To stand in the midst of ... this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity in existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning ... that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human has this feeling just because he is human. The Gay Science
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