{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_227: Lucky people are bad hands at", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9658144b296d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_227: Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly. 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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_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_64354cc870b9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_173: There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest, which make...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest, which makes us desire to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which springs from a desire of knowing wha"}, {"id": "card_n_e75e4140134e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_097: We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters:...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that c"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_b5d451e18688", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_007: Great and striking actions which dazzle the eyes are represented by politicia...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Great and striking actions which dazzle the eyes are represented by politicians as the effect of great designs, instead of which they are commonly caused by the temper and the passions. Thus the war b"}, {"id": "card_n_17624fc3d799", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_444: Old fools are more foolish than young fools.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Old fools are more foolish than young fools. [\"Malvolio. Infirmity{,} that decays the wise{,} doth eve{r} make the better fool. Clown. God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity{,} for the better increasin"}, {"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_4b1d93f34d6a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_076: There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it. [\"Oh Love! no habitant of earth thou art-- An unseen seraph, we believe in thee-- A faith whose m"}, {"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"}]}