{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c44ad4a9d8ff", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot ass...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. [The author corrected this maxim several times, in 1665 it is No. 75; 1666, No. 66; 1671"}, {"id": "card_n_27586fd6114c", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_17: Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: Where there is no Torah, there is no right con...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: Where there is no Torah, there is no right conduct; where there is no right conduct, there is no Torah. Where there is no wisdom, there is no fear of God; where there is"}, {"id": "card_c_e60db4da7368", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot ass... references No", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions No (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_438802f29aca", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as th"}, {"id": "card_n_c1e3b5bef071", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_420: We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but deb...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but debasement, and we suffer misfortunes without regarding them as cowards who let themselves be killed from fear of defending th"}, {"id": "card_n_1e7b3d5641cb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them with impunity. [\"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise,\" quoted by Pope from a poem which has not survived, \"The Garland,\" b"}, {"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_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_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_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"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_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_85e8bf55be48", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_266: We deceive ourselves if we believe that there are violent passions like ambit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We deceive ourselves if we believe that there are violent passions like ambition and love that can triumph over others. Idleness, languishing as she is, does not often fail in being mistress; she usur"}, {"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_4b1d93f34d6a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_076: There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it. [\"Oh Love! no habitant of earth thou art-- An unseen seraph, we believe in thee-- A faith whose m"}, {"id": "card_n_d07403cc62c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_198: We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "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 Tu"}, {"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_13fea045d567", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_045: I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. Drunkenness is far from me; Thou wilt have mercy, that it come not near me. But full feeding "}, {"id": "card_n_ff2f198d1c2d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_399: There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a cert...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a certain manner what distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great things; it is the value we insensibly set upon ou"}, {"id": "card_n_76ef1e2e7fab", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_148: Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach. [\"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.\" Pope {Essay On Man, (1733), Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot.}"}]}