{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_174: It is far better to accustom o", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_023fb5a29c5f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love--Plus"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_16_16", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:16", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 16:16 — Solomon here not only asserts that it is better to get wisdom than gold (Pro 3:14, Pro 8:19), but he speaks it with assurance, that it is much better, better beyond expression - wi"}, {"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_255b2f32e29b", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_504: Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but just to say something on the hollowness of the contempt for death. I allude to that contempt of death which the heathen boa"}, {"id": "card_n_ff2f198d1c2d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_399: There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a cert...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a certain manner what distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great things; it is the value we insensibly set upon ou"}, {"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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Whence is t"}, {"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_n_ec48fb4a0412", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_271: Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. [\"The best of life is but intoxication.\"--{Lord Byron, } Don Juan{, Canto II, stanza 179}. In the 1st Edition, 1665, the maxim finishes wi"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_28_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 28:6 — Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to "}, {"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). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_c_e42aa1b8a00e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_028: Jealousy is in ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_174: It is far bett", "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_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_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_src_comm_proverbs_19_22", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:22", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 19:22 — Note, 1. The honour of doing good is what we may laudably be ambitious of. It cannot but be the desire of man, if he have any spark of virtue in him, to be kind; one would not cove"}, {"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_n_3fb5ee50a72f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_029: How then do I seek Thee, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee. How then do I seek a ha"}, {"id": "card_n_62ce6b705cad", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xix: As one that tosseth up a ball.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As one that tosseth up a ball. And what is a ball the better, if the motion of it be upwards; or the worse if it be downwards; or if it chance to fall upon the ground? So for the bubble; if it continu"}]}