{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_148: Some reproaches praise", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_76ef1e2e7fab", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_148: Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach. [\"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.\" Pope {Essay On Man, (1733), Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot.}"}, {"id": "card_c_7919a6de59e1", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_148: Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach. references On", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions On (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_438802f29aca", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as th"}, {"id": "card_n_1e7b3d5641cb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them with impunity. [\"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise,\" quoted by Pope from a poem which has not survived, \"The Garland,\" b"}, {"id": "card_src_word_la_rochefoucauld", "title": "la rochefoucauld", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "la rochefoucauld: (noun) French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680) — syn: Francois de La Rochefoucauld"}, {"id": "card_src_word_francois_de_la_rochefoucauld", "title": "francois de la rochefoucauld", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "francois de la rochefoucauld: (noun) French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680) — syn: La Rochefoucauld"}, {"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_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_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. 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Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_n_d07403cc62c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_198: We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Conde and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both. [The allusion to Conde and Tu"}, {"id": "card_n_c44ad4a9d8ff", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot ass...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. [The author corrected this maxim several times, in 1665 it is No. 75; 1666, No. 66; 1671"}, {"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_c_f8f4aaa7c320", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_116: Nothing is les ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_148: Some reproache", "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_bf582fffb454", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_148: Some reproache ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_081: We can love no", "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_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_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_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_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"}]}