{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_066: A clever man ought to so regul", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e70503d9cf46", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_066: A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due order. Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly lo"}, {"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_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_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_f5cb76331ff4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_453: In great matters we should not try so much to create opportunities as to util...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In great matters we should not try so much to create opportunities as to utilise those that offer themselves. [Yet Lord Bacon says \"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.\"--Essays, {(1"}, {"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_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_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_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_28c581c1c7b2", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_218: Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. [So Massillon, in one of his sermons, \"Vice pays homage to virtue in doing honour to her appearance.\" So Junius, writing to the Duke of Grafton, says, \"You"}, {"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_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"}, {"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_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_c162e037bf89", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_038: We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears. [\"The reason why the Cardinal (Mazarin) deferred so long to grant the favours he had promised, was because he was persuaded that h"}, {"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_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_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_b232a46a129f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_138: A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing. [\"Montaigne's vanity led him to talk perpetually of himself, and as often happens to vain men, he would rather talk of his own failings than of"}, {"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"}]}