{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_061: The happiness or unhappiness o", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2fc9907e7e7f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_061: The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. [\"Still to ourselves in every place consigned Our own felicity we make or find.\" Goldsmith, Traveller, "}, {"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_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_3d4aca7185ab", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_028: Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of othe"}, {"id": "card_n_80c9bd7b82d7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_488: The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard as the more important things of life, as in a judicious or injudicious arrangement of the little things of daily occurrenc"}, {"id": "card_n_c5fe1c6ef7ed", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_471: In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love l...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. [\"In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what she loves is love.\" {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Can"}, {"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_955aa36ca9c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_088: Self love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Self love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them, and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us."}, {"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_d687cd8ec85a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_277: Women often think they love when they do not love.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Women often think they love when they do not love. The business of a love affair, the emotion of mind that sentiment induces, the natural bias towards the pleasure of being loved, the difficulty of re"}, {"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_981bd064d645", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_482: The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy or pleasant.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy or pleasant. This habit always places bounds to our knowledge, and no one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind"}, {"id": "card_n_fde9cbbe5cd4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_490: We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love. [\"Men commence by love, finish by ambition, and do not find a quieter seat while they remain there.\"--La Bruyere: Du Coeur"}, {"id": "card_n_e763c87a0fe9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_230: Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil witho...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil without producing the like. We imitate good actions by emulation, and bad ones by the evil of our nature, which shame imprisons "}, {"id": "card_n_d0bd5a148095", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xli: Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened! nay, happy I, to whom this thing being happened, I can continue without grief; neither wounded by that which is present, nor in fear of that which i"}, {"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_7d8095bca522", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_239: Nothing flatters our pride so much as the confidence of the great, because we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing flatters our pride so much as the confidence of the great, because we regard it as the result of our worth, without remembering that generally 'tis but vanity, or the inability to keep a secre"}, {"id": "card_n_d19f3d94e92c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_268: We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or pre-occupation or want of intell"}, {"id": "card_n_8e010a01780e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_178: What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the ol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the old or the wish for change as the desire to be admired by those who know more than ourselves, and the hope of advantage over "}, {"id": "card_n_07253b581154", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_075: Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to liv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear. [So Lord Byron{Stanzas, (1819), stanza 3} says of Love-- \"Like chiefs of facti"}]}