{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_055: The hate of favourites is only", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_126ec22f0b76", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_055: The hate of favourites is only a love of favour.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not"}, {"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_dc36c634ae34", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_329: We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method. [\"{But} when I tell him he hates flatter{ers}, He says he does, being then most flattered.\" Shakespeare, Julius Caesar {,Act "}, {"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_fba06ae2fcf0", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_102: The head is ever the dupe of the heart.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The head is ever the dupe of the heart. [A feeble imitation of that great thought \"All folly comes from the heart.\"--Aime Martin. But Bonhome, in his L'art De Penser, says \"Plusieurs diraient en perio"}, {"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_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_297c492faedd", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_054: The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to "}, {"id": "card_n_2633b35a2030", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_008: The passions are the only advocates which always persuade.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent w"}, {"id": "card_n_385890d13874", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_018: Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which thos...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderat"}, {"id": "card_n_ec48fb4a0412", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_271: Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. [\"The best of life is but intoxication.\"--{Lord Byron, } Don Juan{, Canto II, stanza 179}. In the 1st Edition, 1665, the maxim finishes wi"}, {"id": "card_n_4f3fee830c82", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_413: A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit. [According to Segrais this maxim was a hit at Racine and Boileau, who, despising ordinary conversation, talked incessantly of literature; but the"}, {"id": "card_n_998c0b71e1ea", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_245: There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. [\"You have accomplished a great stroke in diplomacy when you have made others think that you have only very average abilities.\"--La Bruy"}, {"id": "card_n_24df956cc976", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_405: We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience. [\"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumin"}, {"id": "card_n_4caeb9be97fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_213: Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agree...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others are often causes of that bravery so vaunted among men. [Junius said"}, {"id": "card_n_75558cb470fa", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_081: We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves; nevertheless it is only by that preference that friendship can be"}, {"id": "card_n_556376b8b2c9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_426: The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends. [\"Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom and novelty.\"-La Bruyere, De"}, {"id": "card_n_58600e0fe93d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_257: Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal the want of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal the want of mind. [\"Gravity is the very essence of imposture.\"--Shaftesbury, Characteristics, p. 11, vol. I. \"The very essence of gravi"}, {"id": "card_n_8ad177db0311", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_233: In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, "}, {"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"}]}