{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise princes for virtues", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1e7b3d5641cb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them with impunity. [\"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise,\" quoted by Pope from a poem which has not survived, \"The Garland,\" b"}, {"id": "card_n_88bdb0a990f3", "title": "Psalm 150 — Praise Ye the LORD", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with the sounding "}, {"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_bd0baa002443", "title": "Psalm 148 — Psalm 148", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, yo"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_135_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 135:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 135:1 — Here is, 1. The duty we are called to - to praise the Lord, to praise his name; praise him, and again praise him. We must not only thank him for what he has done for us, but praise h"}, {"id": "card_n_76ef1e2e7fab", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_148: Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach. [\"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.\" Pope {Essay On Man, (1733), Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot.}"}, {"id": "card_n_98b661940546", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_025: We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune. [\"Prosperity do{th} best discover vice, but adversity do{th} best discover virtue.\"--Lord Bacon, Essays{, (1625), \"Of Adversity\"}.] {The quot"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_147_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 147:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 147:12 — Jerusalem, and Zion, the holy city, the holy hill, are here called upon to praise God, Psa 147:12. For where should praise be offered up to God but where his altar is? Where may we "}, {"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_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_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_dec5b14dc67b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_001: Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality,"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_145_10", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 145:10", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 145:10 — The greatness and goodness of him who is optimus et maximus - the best and greatest of beings, were celebrated in the former part of the psalm; here, in these verses, we are taught "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_108_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 108:1 — We may here learn how to praise God from the example of one who was master of the art. 1. We must praise God with fixedness of heart. Our heart must be employed in the duty (else we "}, {"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_c_c3cf42445b52", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise prin ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_003: Whatever disco", "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_src_comm_psalms_65_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 65:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 65:1 — The psalmist here has no particular concern of his own at the throne of grace, but begins with an address to God, as the master of an assembly and the mouth of a congregation; and obs"}, {"id": "card_n_c44ad4a9d8ff", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot ass...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. [The author corrected this maxim several times, in 1665 it is No. 75; 1666, No. 66; 1671"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_175", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:175", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:175 — David's heart is still upon praising God; and therefore, 1. He prays that God would give him time to praise him: \"Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee, that is, let my life b"}, {"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"}]}