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Il y avait dans le voisinage un derviche très fameux, qui passait pour le meilleur philosophe de la Turquie; ils allèrent le consulter; Pangloss porta la parole, et lui dit:
— Maître, nous venons vous prier de nous dire pourquoi un aussi étrange animal que l’homme a été formé.
— De quoi te mêles-tu? dit le derviche, est-ce là ton affaire?
— Mais, mon Révérend Père, dit Candide, il y a horriblement de mal sur la terre.
— Qu’importe, dit le derviche, qu’il y ait du mal ou du bien? Quand sa Hautesse envoie un vaisseau en Égypte, s’embarrasse-t-elle si les souris qui sont dans le vaisseau sont à leur aise ou non?

Candide - 1759

In the neighborhood lived a famous dervish who passed for the best philosopher in Turkey; they went to consult him: Pangloss, who was their spokesman, addressed him thus:
"Master, we come to entreat you to tell us why so strange an animal as man has been formed?"
"Why do you trouble your head about it?" said the dervish; "is it any business of yours?"
"But, Reverend Father," said Candide, "there is a horrible deal of evil on the earth."
"What matters," said the dervish, "whether there is evil or good? When His Highness sends a ship to Egypt does he trouble his head whether the rats on the ship are at their ease or not?"
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