{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_268: We credit judges with the mean", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d19f3d94e92c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_268: We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or pre-occupation or want of intell"}, {"id": "card_n_424c02ce5520", "title": "1 John 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life\n2. (and the life was reveal"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_64d4d7258e38", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_085: We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we exp"}, {"id": "card_n_dc36c634ae34", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_329: We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method. 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[The allusion to Conde and Tu"}, {"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_438802f29aca", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as th"}, {"id": "card_n_c162e037bf89", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_038: We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears. [\"The reason why the Cardinal (Mazarin) deferred so long to grant the favours he had promised, was because he was persuaded that h"}, {"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. 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