Human Suffering

Title: Human Suffering
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1082 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Human Suffering

The Inevitability of Human Suffering? Human suffering is a problem that haunted Voltaire. Not only did he have tremendous sympathy for those who suffered, but he also experienced many misfortunes throughout his life. Voltaire recognized different types and causes of suffering and how it affected humans all over the world. In the novel Candide, Voltaire writes about the painful life of a man named Candide. Throughout his travels across the globe, Candide experienced and witnessed …showed first 75 words of 1082 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1082 total…Candide. Voltaire shows the importance on one’s whole attitude concerning their life. An attitude that is either too optimistic or too pessimistic will always result in that person’s misery. The optimist is always disappointed with reality and the pessimist never has hope or faith in the future. A healthy medium is the best attitude to have when attempting to improve one’s future. Man is responsible for his own destiny to large degree.

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