{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_088: Self love increases or diminis", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_955aa36ca9c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_088: Self love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Self love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them, and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us."}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_de5351e63166", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_494: What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that they are never wrong when they speak of their conduct; the same self-love that usually blinds them enlightens them, and giv"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_80c9bd7b82d7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_488: The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard as the more important things of life, as in a judicious or injudicious arrangement of the little things of daily occurrenc"}, {"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"}]}