Candide/legacy

Famous quotes containing the words candide and/or legacy:

    Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
    Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
    Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)