{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_085: We often persuade ourselves to", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_007f965ccc25", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_264: Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall. We help others that on like occasions we may be helped ourselves, "}, {"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_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_35661f2d238d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_05: We cannot place too little confidence in ourselves, because grace and underst...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We cannot place too little confidence in ourselves, because grace and understanding are often lacking to us. Little light is there within us, and what we have we quickly lose by negligence. Oftentimes"}, {"id": "card_n_255b2f32e29b", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_504: Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but just to say something on the hollowness of the contempt for death. I allude to that contempt of death which the heathen boa"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_7f5bdebf5dd6", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_11: We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves. How can he abide long time in peace who occupieth hi"}, {"id": "card_n_e75e4140134e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_097: We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters:...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that c"}, {"id": "card_n_f1a8b3131ce5", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_313: How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [\"Old men who yet retain "}, {"id": "card_n_424c02ce5520", "title": "1 John 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life\n2. (and the life was reveal"}, {"id": "card_n_59a9551b2fd2", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_256: In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what we wish to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what we wish to be. Thus the world is merely composed of actors. [\"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.\"--Sh"}]}