{"id":140880,"date":"2025-10-29T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140880"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:07:14","slug":"wednesday-food-for-thought-from-dostoevsky-nothing-in-the-world-is-harder-than-speaking-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140880","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday food for Thought from Dostoevsky&#8211;&#8216;Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cNothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.If there\u2019s the hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble.But if all, to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse satisfaction, but still a satisfaction. And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That\u2019s so for all stages of development and classes of society. -Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment)\u201d<br><br>\u2015 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> in 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. (Crime and Punishment, 1866) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xcK1G6rZRD\">pic.twitter.com\/xcK1G6rZRD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Libroantiguo\/status\/664320903761776640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.If there\u2019s the hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble.But if all, to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140880\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,92,133,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140882,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140880\/revisions\/140882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}