Candide or, the Optimist: Candide is Voltaire's most acclaimed work. Candide is a good-natured, easy-minded man. He lodges at the baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh's estate, and believes in what his teacher Pangloss says "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". Candid falls in love with Cunégonde, the daughter of the baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, and gets exiled by the baron, begins to lead a vagrant life. The book aims to criticize blind optimism. Candide, Cunégonde and Pangloss believe that the world is perfect, everything and everybody is perfect at first, but they are hardened by many misfortunes that befall them. They realize that the world is not flawless, only labor can help us get away from troubles, faults and wants. There is also an utopia — El Dorado, a fantastic village in which the inhabitants are simply rational, and their society is just and reasonable. It is Voltaire's political ideal.(老实人：《老实人》是伏尔泰的代表作。主人公老实人纯朴善良，头脑简单，寄居在森特一登·脱龙克男爵府上，信奉导师邦葛罗斯关于"世界尽善尽美"的哲学。老实人因和男爵的小姐居内贡自由恋爱，被男爵逐出家门，从此开始流浪生涯。 其主题是批判盲目乐观主义哲学，小说中老实人及其意中人和他的老师最初觉得世界是完美的，一切人和一切事物都尽善尽美，但他们在遭遇一系列无妄之灾后，终于认识到这个世界并不完善，唯有劳动可以使人们免除烦恼、过错和欲望三大痛苦。文中还描写了一个政治清明、黄金遍地的黄金国。国中人人过着自由平等、快乐而富裕的生活，寄托了伏尔泰的政治理想。)