{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_216: Perfect valour is to do withou", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_d50827849044", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_214: Valour in common soldiers is a perilous method of earning their living.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Valour in common soldiers is a perilous method of earning their living. [\"Men venture necks to gain a fortune, The soldier does it ev{'}ry day, (Eight to the week) for sixpence pay.\" {--Samuel Butler,"}, {"id": "card_n_d21234784614", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_215: Perfect bravery and sheer cowardice are two extremes rarely found.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfect bravery and sheer cowardice are two extremes rarely found. The space between them is vast, and embraces all other sorts of courage. The difference between them is not less than between faces a"}, {"id": "card_n_ed195bbfc4a9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_092: To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a tur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him. ["}, {"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_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_55041a1251fd", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_365: There are virtues which degenerate into vices when they arise from Nature, an...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are virtues which degenerate into vices when they arise from Nature, and others which when acquired are never perfect. For example, reason must teach us to manage our estate and our confidence, "}, {"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_1e7b3d5641cb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them with impunity. [\"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise,\" quoted by Pope from a poem which has not survived, \"The Garland,\" b"}, {"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_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_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_234793cfc334", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_404: It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more "}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_556376b8b2c9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_426: The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends. [\"Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom and novelty.\"-La Bruyere, De"}]}