{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_482: The mind attaches itself by id", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_981bd064d645", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_482: The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy or pleasant.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy or pleasant. This habit always places bounds to our knowledge, and no one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind"}, {"id": "card_n_2b5e67eb1e94", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_021: The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same mann...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them; but far otherwise, according to a power of its own. For without r"}, {"id": "card_n_e75e4140134e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_097: We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters:...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that c"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_2d6347b5992d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_125: The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens tha...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another. [\"With that low cun"}, {"id": "card_n_3adfef56e993", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_174: It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to specul...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to speculate on those which may befall us. [\"Rather bear th{ose} ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of.\" {--Shakespear"}, {"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_828ccd4d8a9a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xiii: This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over all, will not of itself bring trouble and vexation upon itself. This I say; it will not put itself in any fear, it will not"}, {"id": "card_n_1f646fc2885f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_241: Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise it, some being restrained by fear, others by sense. [\"By nature woman is a flirt, but her flirting changes both in the mode "}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"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_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_58600e0fe93d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_257: Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal the want of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal the want of mind. [\"Gravity is the very essence of imposture.\"--Shaftesbury, Characteristics, p. 11, vol. I. \"The very essence of gravi"}, {"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"}]}