{"id":1295,"date":"2011-09-23T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2013-08-29T19:44:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:44:43","slug":"analects-of-the-core-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/23\/analects-of-the-core-137\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Voltaire on people taking advantage of misfortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>La vieille dit \u00e0 Cun\u00e9gonde : \u00ab Mademoiselle, vous avez soixante et douze quartiers, et pas une obole ; il ne tient qu&#8217;\u00e0 vous d&#8217;\u00eatre la femme du plus grand seigneur de l&#8217;Am\u00e9rique m\u00e9ridionale, qui a une tr\u00e8s belle moustache ; est-ce \u00e0 vous de vous piquer d&#8217;une fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 \u00e0 toute \u00e9preuve ? Vous avez \u00e9t\u00e9 viol\u00e9e par les Bulgares ; un Juif et un inquisiteur ont eu vos bonnes gr\u00e2ces : les malheurs donnent des droits. \u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8216;Miss, you have seventy-two quarterings in your arms, it is true, but you have not a penny to bless yourself with. It is your own fault if you do not become the wife of one of the greatest noblemen in South America, with an exceeding fine mustachio. What business have you to pride yourself upon an unshaken constancy? You have been outraged by a Bulgarian soldier; a Jew and an Inquisitor have both tasted of your favors. People take advantage of misfortunes.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Voltaire, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Candide-Optimism-Penguin-Classics-Voltaire\/dp\/0140440046\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1316115325&amp;sr=8-2\">Candide<\/a><\/em>, Chapter 13, English trans. by William F. Fleming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La vieille dit \u00e0 Cun\u00e9gonde : \u00ab Mademoiselle, vous avez soixante et douze quartiers, et pas une obole ; il ne tient qu&#8217;\u00e0 vous d&#8217;\u00eatre la femme du plus grand seigneur de l&#8217;Am\u00e9rique m\u00e9ridionale, qui a une tr\u00e8s belle moustache ; est-ce \u00e0 vous de vous piquer d&#8217;une fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 \u00e0 toute \u00e9preuve ? Vous avez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,3691],"tags":[3713,3915,48728,3714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}