What horrors among a people who dance and sing! Is there no way of getting quickly out of this country where monkeys provoke tigers? I have seen no bears in my country, but men I have beheld nowhere except in El Dorado. In the name of God, sir, conduct me to Venice, where I am to await Miss Cunegonde

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Tristan Fuller

7 April, 00:58

What horrors among a people who dance and sing! Is there no way of getting quickly out of this country where monkeys provoke tigers? I have seen no bears in my country, but men I have beheld nowhere except in El Dorado. In the name of God, sir, conduct me to Venice, where I am to await Miss Cunegonde

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Ayden Vazquez · Answer 1

Candide was of the conclusion that outside of El Dorado, every other person in Europe are animals and that it is only of El Dorado that one can find gentlemen. For some reason, he compared everyone in compared, except those in El Dorado, to being animals without heart (Tigers)