"The phrase \"the best of all possible worlds\" (French: le meilleur des mondes possibles; German: Die beste aller m\u00F6glichen Welten) was coined by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Th\u00E9odic\u00E9e sur la bont\u00E9 de Dieu, la libert\u00E9 de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil)."@en . . . .