{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_347: We hardly find any persons of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ce0a908f32d9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_347: We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. [\"That was excellently observed, say I, when I read an author when his opinion agrees with mine.\"--Swift, Thoughts On Various Su"}, {"id": "card_n_caddee6331e4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_139: One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. 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This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that c"}, {"id": "card_n_fad45147b052", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_073: We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to find those who have intrigued but once. [\"Yet there are some, they say, who have had None}; But those who have, ne'er end wi"}, {"id": "card_c_bd7d3a7619d7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_347: We hardly find ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_225: What makes fal", "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_d09c750e53ec", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_412: Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to r...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. [\"This is hardly a period at which the most irregular character may not be redeemed. The mistake"}, {"id": "card_n_d07403cc62c3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_198: We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Conde and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both. [The allusion to Conde and Tu"}, {"id": "card_n_75558cb470fa", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_081: We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves; nevertheless it is only by that preference that friendship can be"}, {"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_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_cbcebb1c3afb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_028: But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget and seek that we may recollect? Where in the end do we search, but in the memory itself? and there, if one thing be perchan"}, {"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_24df956cc976", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_405: We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience. [\"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumin"}, {"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. [\"Rather bear th{ose} ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of.\" {--Shakespear"}, {"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"}]}