{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_087: Men would not live long in soc", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6b645141f8a9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_087: Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aime Martin, \"Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral trea"}, {"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_9f1c1ac9e38b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_031: Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, and love, and long for it? Nor is it I alone, or some few besides, but we all would fain be happy; which, unless by some cer"}, {"id": "card_n_dd15e1a870e3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_024: When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes ar"}, {"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_0121cd019ad8", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_014: Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury or of recompensi"}, {"id": "card_n_02d1bbbf81bc", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_493: It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they increase the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they increase the number by certain peculiar qualities that they affect to assume, and which they cultivate with so great assiduity that at "}, {"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_71e537de3407", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_001: What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interes...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are b"}, {"id": "card_n_f4a0b940ddc2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_022: For so did I then love men, upon the judgment of men, not Thine, O my God, in...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For so did I then love men, upon the judgment of men, not Thine, O my God, in Whom no man is deceived. But yet why not for qualities, like those of a famous charioteer, or fighter with beasts in the t"}, {"id": "card_n_65fceda2577c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_438: There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us. [\"And understood not t"}, {"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_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_b8ec61524d9a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_216: Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the wo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world. [\"It is said of untrue valours that some men's valours are in the eyes of them that look on.\"--Bacon, Advancement Of L"}, {"id": "card_n_04fc6568c91f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_220: Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. [\"Vanity bids all her sons be brave and all her daughters chaste and courteous. But why do we need her instruction?\"--S"}, {"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_58646bf965cb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_236: It would seem that even self-love may be the dupe of goodness and forget itse...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It would seem that even self-love may be the dupe of goodness and forget itself when we work for others. And yet it is but taking the shortest way to arrive at its aim, taking usury under the pretext "}, {"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_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"}]}