{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_018: Moderation is caused by the fe", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_c_0814693cb3c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_174: It is far bett ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_018: Moderation is ", "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). 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Thus the war b"}, {"id": "card_c_c581cd7b3d8a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_218: Hypocrisy is t ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_142: As it is the m", "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."}, {"id": "card_c_cad16459c31a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_447: Propriety is t ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_438: There is a cer", "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). 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Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"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_cae4f57fd1f7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_225: What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the gi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. [\"The first foundation of friendship is not the power of "}, {"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_9d5337396700", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_254: Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. It is one of the devices of Pride to lower us to raise us; and truly pride transforms itself in a thousand ways, and is never"}, {"id": "card_n_007f965ccc25", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_264: Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall. We help others that on like occasions we may be helped ourselves, "}]}