Candide

"There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds: for if you had not been kicked out of a magnificent castle for love of Miss Cunegonde: if you had not been put into the Inquisition: if you had not walked over America: if you had not stabbed the Baron: if you had not lost all your sheep from the fine country of El Dorado: you would not be here eating preserved citrons and pistachio-nuts."

"All that is very well," answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden."
--Voltaire "Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759)"

Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
(25 August, 1918 – 14 October, 1990)
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Lenoard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
Overture to Candide (Bernstein)