{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_116: Nothing is less sincere than t", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7d61d5628212", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_116: Nothing is less sincere than the way of asking and giving advice.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing is less sincere than the way of asking and giving advice. The person asking seems to pay deference to the opinion of his friend, while thinking in reality of making his friend approve his opin"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_204d233668b5", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_492: Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of pers...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations, others mistake great future advantages for small pre"}, {"id": "card_n_e763c87a0fe9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_230: Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil witho...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil without producing the like. We imitate good actions by emulation, and bad ones by the evil of our nature, which shame imprisons "}, {"id": "card_n_8e010a01780e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_178: What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the ol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the old or the wish for change as the desire to be admired by those who know more than ourselves, and the hope of advantage over "}, {"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_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_7d8095bca522", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_239: Nothing flatters our pride so much as the confidence of the great, because we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing flatters our pride so much as the confidence of the great, because we regard it as the result of our worth, without remembering that generally 'tis but vanity, or the inability to keep a secre"}, {"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_98b661940546", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_025: We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune. [\"Prosperity do{th} best discover vice, but adversity do{th} best discover virtue.\"--Lord Bacon, Essays{, (1625), \"Of Adversity\"}.] {The quot"}, {"id": "card_n_17624fc3d799", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_444: Old fools are more foolish than young fools.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Old fools are more foolish than young fools. [\"Malvolio. Infirmity{,} that decays the wise{,} doth eve{r} make the better fool. Clown. God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity{,} for the better increasin"}, {"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_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_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_0428e9a61af3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_340: The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason. [\"Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning and good sense I never knew one in my life that "}, {"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"}]}