Pangloss Wisdom

Dr. Pangloss was a character in the French Satire Candide, which was first written in 1759, by Voltaire; a philosopher of the age of enlightenment. In the book, Dr. Pangloss was the mentor of a young man named Candide who lived in seclusion in an Eden-like Paradise. To this young man; Candide; Pangloss sought to teach optimism, until their world was ripped apart and Candide was forced to witness and experience great hardships in the world around him.

This website, Pangloss Wisdom, was designed to bring you wise sayings that Pangloss might have said, had he the time to say them. Each quote is designed to bring insight to the readers mind and the viewer is only ever a click away from the next saying.

Along with this feature, the website also sports a few utilities for web-designers, Shakespearean insults, (Now you, too, can insult like the folk in Shakespeare's plays) a rhyme generator, (for the poetically disinclined) a unit converter, (for those who, like me, didn't spend enough time in school memorizing conversion tables) and a link to their home page, where even more goodies may be found.

Informational, practical and; if nothing else; entertaining, this website has something for just about everybody, even if that something is a temporary distraction from duties.

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