{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_014: Men are not only prone to forg", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0121cd019ad8", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_014: Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury or of recompensi"}, {"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_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_caddee6331e4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_139: One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. Th"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_colossians_3_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Colossians 3:12 — The apostle proceeds to exhort to mutual love and compassion: Put on therefore bowels of mercy, Col 3:12. We must not only put off anger and wrath (as Col 3:8), but we must put on"}, {"id": "card_n_64d4d7258e38", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_085: We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we exp"}, {"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_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_0f99b4ab54e9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_119: We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves. [\"Those who quit their proper character{,} to assume what does not belong to them, are{,} for the gr"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_10_4", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:4", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 10:4 — We are here told, 1. Who those are who, though rich, are in a fair way to become poor - those who deal with a slack hand, who are careless and remiss in their business, and never mi"}, {"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_6b645141f8a9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_087: Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aime Martin, \"Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral trea"}, {"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_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_5fdb4249401c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_024: Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that only can be seen, which is. But what now is, is not future, but present. When then things to come are said to be seen, it i"}, {"id": "card_n_71e537de3407", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_001: What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interes...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are b"}, {"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_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_f1a8b3131ce5", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_313: How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [\"Old men who yet retain "}, {"id": "card_c_4306f100fed4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficul ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_014: Men are not on", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to classics · larochefoucauld_maxims — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}]}