{"id": "card_n_71e537de3407", "kind": "note", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_001: What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interes...", "body": "What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. \"Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave; Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.\" Pope, Moral Essays, Ep. i. line 115.", "source": {"label": "François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665)", "url": "/canon.html?ref=larochefoucauld_laroch_001", "ref": "laroch_001", "authority_tier": "external_aligned"}, "shelf": "classics", "box": "larochefoucauld_maxims", "bands": ["larochefoucauld", "maxims", "moralist", "post_christian"], "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_n_75558cb470fa", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}, {"to_card_id": "card_n_700f987e94ad", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}], "author": "engine", "created_at": "2026-05-19T13:20:58.893879+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-19T13:20:58.893888+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "06d7c84f4deb3f690794fd47d066053fdb1dd0151f759e3ce3a17d0fef38764d", "witnesses": [{"class": "manuscript_tradition", "label": "First edition, Paris 1665 — Barbin imprint", "ref": "LR-1665"}, {"class": "critical_edition", "label": "Pleiade edition — Truchet (Gallimard, 1964)", "ref": "Pleiade-LR"}, {"class": "translation", "label": "Tancock translation (Penguin Classics, 1959)", "ref": "Tancock-1959"}, {"class": "republication", "label": "Project Gutenberg — Maxims", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9105", "ref": "PG-9105"}, {"class": "republication", "label": "Internet Archive — multiple editions", "url": "https://archive.org/search?query=la+rochefoucauld+maxims", "ref": "IA-LR"}], "witness_status": "passed", "witness_status_reason": "5 witnesses across 4 independence classes: ['critical_edition', 'manuscript_tradition', 'republication', 'translation']", "surface": "secular"}