{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_217: Intrepidity is an extraordinar", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a263ed298d8e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_217: Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul which raises it above the tr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul which raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it: by this strength heroes maintain a calm a"}, {"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_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_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_fad45147b052", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_073: We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to find those who have intrigued but once. [\"Yet there are some, they say, who have had None}; But those who have, ne'er end wi"}, {"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_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"}, {"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_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_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_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_40b242823edd", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_289: Affected simplicity is refined imposture.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Affected simplicity is refined imposture. [Domitianus simplicitatis ac modestiae imagine studium litterarum et amorem carminum simulabat quo velaret animum et fratris aemulationi subduceretur.--Tacitu"}, {"id": "card_n_2633b35a2030", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_008: The passions are the only advocates which always persuade.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent w"}, {"id": "card_n_ec48fb4a0412", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_271: Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. [\"The best of life is but intoxication.\"--{Lord Byron, } Don Juan{, Canto II, stanza 179}. In the 1st Edition, 1665, the maxim finishes wi"}, {"id": "card_n_ce0a908f32d9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_347: We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. [\"That was excellently observed, say I, when I read an author when his opinion agrees with mine.\"--Swift, Thoughts On Various Su"}, {"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_28c581c1c7b2", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_218: Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. [So Massillon, in one of his sermons, \"Vice pays homage to virtue in doing honour to her appearance.\" So Junius, writing to the Duke of Grafton, says, \"You"}, {"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_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_3d4aca7185ab", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_028: Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of othe"}]}