Pangloss used now and then to say to Candide: "There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts."
Panglós deeia algunas veces á Candido. Todos los sucesos están encadenados en el mejor de los mundos posibles; porque si no te hubieran echado á patadas en el trasero de una magnífica quinta por amor de Cunegunda, si no te hubieran metido en la inquisicion, si no hubieras andado á pié por las soledades de la América, si no hubieras pegado una birena estocada al baron, y si no hubieras perdido todos tus carneros del buen pais del Dorado, no estarias aqui ahora comiendo azamboas en dulce, y alfónsigos.