{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_119: We become so accustomed to dis", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_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_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_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_e70503d9cf46", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_066: A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due order. Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly lo"}, {"id": "card_n_d19f3d94e92c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_268: We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or pre-occupation or want of intell"}, {"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_f5cb76331ff4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_453: In great matters we should not try so much to create opportunities as to util...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In great matters we should not try so much to create opportunities as to utilise those that offer themselves. [Yet Lord Bacon says \"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.\"--Essays, {(1"}, {"id": "card_n_26fd7b06fd21", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_142: As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing. [\"So much they talked, so very little said.\" Churchill, Rosciad, 550"}, {"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_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"}, {"id": "card_n_d07403cc62c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_198: We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Conde and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both. [The allusion to Conde and Tu"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_438802f29aca", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as th"}, {"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_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 "}]}