{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_220: Vanity, shame, and above all d", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f4d9f338229b", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_21: Above all things and in all things thou shalt rest alway in the Lord, O my so...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Above all things and in all things thou shalt rest alway in the Lord, O my soul, for he himself is the eternal rest of the saints. Grant me, most sweet and loving Jesus, to rest in Thee above every cr"}, {"id": "card_n_04fc6568c91f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_220: Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. [\"Vanity bids all her sons be brave and all her daughters chaste and courteous. But why do we need her instruction?\"--S"}, {"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_4caeb9be97fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_213: Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agree...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others are often causes of that bravery so vaunted among men. [Junius said"}, {"id": "card_n_bd0baa002443", "title": "Psalm 148 — Psalm 148", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, yo"}, {"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_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_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_8ad177db0311", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_233: In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, "}, {"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_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_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_329e521d766b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxiii: Asia, Europe; what are they, but as corners of the whole world; of which the ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asia, Europe; what are they, but as corners of the whole world; of which the whole sea, is but as one drop; and the great Mount Athos, but as a clod, as all present time is but as one point of eternit"}, {"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_a11b43679b2b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_016: And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inwar...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inward self, Thou being my Guide: and able I was, for Thou wert become my Helper. And I entered and beheld with the eye of my so"}, {"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_588e244306c8", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_297: Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our perceiving i"}, {"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_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_85e8bf55be48", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_266: We deceive ourselves if we believe that there are violent passions like ambit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We deceive ourselves if we believe that there are violent passions like ambition and love that can triumph over others. Idleness, languishing as she is, does not often fail in being mistress; she usur"}]}