{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_245: There is great ability in know", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_64354cc870b9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_173: There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest, which make...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest, which makes us desire to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which springs from a desire of knowing wha"}, {"id": "card_n_ff2f198d1c2d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_399: There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a cert...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a certain manner what distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great things; it is the value we insensibly set upon ou"}, {"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_4b1d93f34d6a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_076: There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it. [\"Oh Love! no habitant of earth thou art-- An unseen seraph, we believe in thee-- A faith whose m"}, {"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_b5d451e18688", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_007: Great and striking actions which dazzle the eyes are represented by politicia...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Great and striking actions which dazzle the eyes are represented by politicians as the effect of great designs, instead of which they are commonly caused by the temper and the passions. Thus the war b"}, {"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_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_dd15e1a870e3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_024: When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes ar"}, {"id": "card_n_de5351e63166", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_494: What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that they are never wrong when they speak of their conduct; the same self-love that usually blinds them enlightens them, and giv"}, {"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_9ff7e54715bd", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_449: When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear w"}, {"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_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_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_65fceda2577c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_438: There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us. [\"And understood not t"}, {"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, "}]}