{"id":151371,"date":"2022-11-21T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=151371"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:43:06","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-voltaire-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=151371","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Voltaire on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.”<\/p>\n

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”<\/p>\n

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”<\/p>\n

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”<\/p>\n

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”<\/p>\n

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”<\/p>\n

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”<\/p>\n

“Common sense is not so common.”<\/p>\n

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.” “Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Nicolas_de_Largilliere_Francois-Marie_Arouet_dit_Voltaire_adjusted.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151373,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151371\/revisions\/151373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}