{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_076: There is real love just as the", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_c_b867c68224cc", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_076: There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, ... references Love", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Love (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_023fb5a29c5f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love--Plus"}, {"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_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_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_n_816de080dbe3", "title": "1 Clement XLIX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ. Who can describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God? What man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told? T"}, {"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_1e240fd1c097", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_003: Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love, there remain ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love, there remain many unexplored territories there. [This is the first hint of the system the author tries to develope. He wishes to find in"}, {"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_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_b1a8b04f2484", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_175: Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which causes our heart to attach...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which causes our heart to attach itself to all the qualities of the person we love in succession, sometimes giving the preference to one, sometimes to anot"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_c_e3f43d99ddbc", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d... references Love", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Love (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_8c6a88f84f15", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_486: More persons exist without self-love than without envy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More persons exist without self-love than without envy. [\"I do not believe that there is a human creature in his senses arrived at maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by thi"}, {"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"}]}