Associations to the word «Candide»

Wiktionary

CANDIDE, proper noun. A novel by Voltaire (in which the protagonist shares his moniker with the title.)
CANDIDE, proper noun. The Operetta of the same name, by Leonard Bernstein.
CANDIDE, proper noun. A naïve and innocent person.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne