{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_471: In their first passion women l", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_0428e9a61af3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_340: The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason. [\"Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning and good sense I never knew one in my life that "}, {"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_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_d687cd8ec85a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_277: Women often think they love when they do not love.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Women often think they love when they do not love. The business of a love affair, the emotion of mind that sentiment induces, the natural bias towards the pleasure of being loved, the difficulty of re"}, {"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_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_9658144b296d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_227: Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly. [\"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for"}, {"id": "card_n_2fc9907e7e7f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_061: The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. [\"Still to ourselves in every place consigned Our own felicity we make or find.\" Goldsmith, Traveller, "}, {"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_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_385890d13874", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_018: Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which thos...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderat"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_576a24430f03", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_021: Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt fo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what th"}, {"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"}]}