Candide secures a fortune in the land of El Dorado, eliminating all physical problems. However, Voltaire accentuates the unhappiness that wealth can cause in a society. Voltaire criticizes optimism when money causes Candide false friends, boredom, loss of taste for art and misery. Voltaire emphasizes human suffering with a “best of all” conclusion. Candide turns away from riches when Voltaire introduces the broken philosophy of optimism. A Turkish philosopher explains "three great evils: boredom, vice and necessity" (Voltaire). The oppression and poverty of the poor is terrible, but Voltaire uses the Turkish philosopher to show that the power of money and greed within a society causes more problems than the poor