{"id": "card_n_d07403cc62c3", "kind": "note", "title": "La Rochefoucauld 198: We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we sh...", "body": "We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Conde and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both. [The allusion to Conde and Turenne gives the date at which these maxims were published in 1665. Conde and Turenne were after their campaign with the Imperialists at the height of their fame. It proves the truth of the remark of Tacitus, \"Populus neminem sine aemulo sinit.\"-- Tac. Ann. xiv.]", "source": {"label": "François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665)", "url": "", "ref": "laroch_198", "authority_tier": "external_aligned"}, "shelf": "classics", "box": "larochefoucauld_maxims", "bands": ["larochefoucauld", "maxims", "moralist", "post_christian"], "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_n_d09c750e53ec", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}, {"to_card_id": "card_n_ce0a908f32d9", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}, {"to_card_id": "card_spine_classics", "relationship": "member_of", "evidence": "a member of the classics shelf in the keeping"}], "author": "engine", "created_at": "2026-05-19T13:20:58.945362+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-19T13:20:58.945370+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": "2e9d9a3e613cf62750aca4c54228254d2403ce2542d70c9e83f46f05062a963e", "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", "presentation": {"glyph": "•", "kind_label": "larochefoucauld maxims", "by": "François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665)", "authority": "external_aligned", "posted": "", "standing": ""}, "neighbors": [{"id": "card_n_d09c750e53ec", "title": "La Rochefoucauld 412: Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to r...", "relationship": "same section", "why": "", "href": "/card/card_n_d09c750e53ec", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_n_ce0a908f32d9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld 347: We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us.", "relationship": "same section", "why": "", "href": "/card/card_n_ce0a908f32d9", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_spine_classics", "title": "The classics — the great books, kept whole", "relationship": "on the shelf of", "why": "a member of the classics shelf in the keeping", "href": "/card/card_spine_classics", "resolved": true}]}