{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_230: Nothing is so infectious as ex", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_80c9bd7b82d7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_488: The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard as the more important things of life, as in a judicious or injudicious arrangement of the little things of daily occurrenc"}, {"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_07253b581154", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_075: Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to liv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear. [So Lord Byron{Stanzas, (1819), stanza 3} says of Love-- \"Like chiefs of facti"}, {"id": "card_n_ff5a44af024e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_287: Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matt...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first disc"}, {"id": "card_n_5bde3731564c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_408: The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget that they are no longer so. [\"Every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. The suspicion of age no woman,"}, {"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_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"}]}