{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_241: Flirtation is at the bottom of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1f646fc2885f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_241: Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise it, some being restrained by fear, others by sense. [\"By nature woman is a flirt, but her flirting changes both in the mode "}, {"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_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_n_234793cfc334", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_404: It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more "}, {"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_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_c_406be574eddb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_492: Avarice often  ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_241: Flirtation 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_07b6f6e2043a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_241: Flirtation is  ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise prin", "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_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_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_385890d13874", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_018: Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which thos...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderat"}, {"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_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_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_cae4f57fd1f7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_225: What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the gi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. [\"The first foundation of friendship is not the power of "}, {"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_n_007f965ccc25", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_264: Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall. We help others that on like occasions we may be helped ourselves, "}, {"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_src_word_bottom", "title": "bottom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "bottom: (noun) the lower side of anything — syn: underside, undersurface · (noun) the lowest part of anything · (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on — syn: buttocks, nates, arse, b"}, {"id": "card_n_d687cd8ec85a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_277: Women often think they love when they do not love.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Women often think they love when they do not love. The business of a love affair, the emotion of mind that sentiment induces, the natural bias towards the pleasure of being loved, the difficulty of re"}]}