{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_021: Those who are condemned to dea", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_576a24430f03", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_021: Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt fo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what th"}, {"id": "card_n_780d61508626", "title": "Barnabas XX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But the way of darkness is crooked, and full of cursing; for it is the way of eternal death with punishment, in which way are the things that destroy the soul, viz. idolatry, over-confidence, the arro"}, {"id": "card_n_0121cd019ad8", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_014: Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury or of recompensi"}, {"id": "card_n_56af95e219fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_440: The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, tha...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, that it is insipid after having felt love. [\"Those who have experienced a great passion neglect friendship, and those who have"}, {"id": "card_n_fad45147b052", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_073: We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to find those who have intrigued but once. [\"Yet there are some, they say, who have had None}; But those who have, ne'er end wi"}, {"id": "card_n_64d4d7258e38", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_085: We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we exp"}, {"id": "card_n_0f99b4ab54e9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_119: We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves. [\"Those who quit their proper character{,} to assume what does not belong to them, are{,} for the gr"}, {"id": "card_n_caddee6331e4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_139: One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_540aced688be", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_082: Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, the fear of some unlucky accident. [\"Thus terminated that famous war of the Fronde. The Duke de la Rochefou"}, {"id": "card_n_ed195bbfc4a9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_092: To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a tur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him. ["}, {"id": "card_n_e813ad395000", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_016: This clemency of which they make a merit, arises oftentimes from vanity, some...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This clemency of which they make a merit, arises oftentimes from vanity, sometimes from idleness, oftentimes from fear, and almost always from all three combined. [La Rochefoucauld is content to paint"}, {"id": "card_n_5f947135be65", "title": "Romans 8", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.\n2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus mad"}, {"id": "card_n_26fd7b06fd21", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_142: As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing. [\"So much they talked, so very little said.\" Churchill, Rosciad, 550"}, {"id": "card_n_20a9445137c0", "title": "Revelation 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,\n2. who testifie"}, {"id": "card_n_67edf09d8870", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_447: Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed. [Honour has its supreme laws, to which education is bound to conform....Those things which honour forbids are more rigorously forbidden when th"}, {"id": "card_n_700f987e94ad", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_350: Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are. [\"I could pardon all his (Louis XI.'s) deceit, but I cannot forgive his supposing me "}, {"id": "card_n_e1eb918f6faf", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_278: What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have"}, {"id": "card_n_3adfef56e993", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_174: It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to specul...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to speculate on those which may befall us. [\"Rather bear th{ose} ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of.\" {--Shakespear"}, {"id": "card_n_ce0a908f32d9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_347: We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. [\"That was excellently observed, say I, when I read an author when his opinion agrees with mine.\"--Swift, Thoughts On Various Su"}, {"id": "card_n_5bde3731564c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_408: The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget that they are no longer so. [\"Every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. The suspicion of age no woman,"}]}