{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_215: Perfect bravery and sheer cowa", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_b8ec61524d9a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_216: Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the wo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world. [\"It is said of untrue valours that some men's valours are in the eyes of them that look on.\"--Bacon, Advancement Of L"}, {"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. 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It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more "}, {"id": "card_n_4caeb9be97fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_213: Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agree...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others are often causes of that bravery so vaunted among men. [Junius said"}, {"id": "card_n_55041a1251fd", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_365: There are virtues which degenerate into vices when they arise from Nature, an...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are virtues which degenerate into vices when they arise from Nature, and others which when acquired are never perfect. For example, reason must teach us to manage our estate and our confidence, "}, {"id": "card_n_75558cb470fa", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_081: We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves; nevertheless it is only by that preference that friendship can be"}, {"id": "card_c_f24671a5d519", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_214: Valour in comm ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_215: Perfect braver", "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_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_04fc6568c91f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_220: Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. [\"Vanity bids all her sons be brave and all her daughters chaste and courteous. But why do we need her instruction?\"--S"}, {"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_0428e9a61af3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_340: The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason. [\"Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning and good sense I never knew one in my life that "}, {"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_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. The Duke de la Rochefou"}]}