{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_230: Nothing is so infectious as ex", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e763c87a0fe9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_230: Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil witho...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil without producing the like. We imitate good actions by emulation, and bad ones by the evil of our nature, which shame imprisons "}, {"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. 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["}, {"id": "card_n_204d233668b5", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_492: Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of pers...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations, others mistake great future advantages for small pre"}, {"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. 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Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly lo"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_c1e3b5bef071", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_420: We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but deb...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but debasement, and we suffer misfortunes without regarding them as cowards who let themselves be killed from fear of defending th"}]}