{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_408: The most dangerous folly of ol", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5bde3731564c", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_408: The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget that they are no longer so. [\"Every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. The suspicion of age no woman,"}, {"id": "card_n_0428e9a61af3", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_340: The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason. [\"Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning and good sense I never knew one in my life that "}, {"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_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_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_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_n_556376b8b2c9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_426: The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends. [\"Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom and novelty.\"-La Bruyere, De"}, {"id": "card_n_8e010a01780e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_178: What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the ol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the old or the wish for change as the desire to be admired by those who know more than ourselves, and the hope of advantage over "}, {"id": "card_n_67edf09d8870", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_447: Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed. [Honour has its supreme laws, to which education is bound to conform....Those things which honour forbids are more rigorously forbidden when 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_2633b35a2030", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_008: The passions are the only advocates which always persuade.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent w"}, {"id": "card_n_17624fc3d799", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_444: Old fools are more foolish than young fools.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Old fools are more foolish than young fools. [\"Malvolio. Infirmity{,} that decays the wise{,} doth eve{r} make the better fool. Clown. God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity{,} for the better increasin"}, {"id": "card_c_5ba4a215e1db", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_382: Our actions ar ↔ La Rochefoucauld §laroch_408: The most dange", "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). 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Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_n_a263ed298d8e", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_217: Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul which raises it above the tr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul which raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it: by this strength heroes maintain a calm a"}, {"id": "card_n_4caeb9be97fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_213: Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agree...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others are often causes of that bravery so vaunted among men. [Junius said"}, {"id": "card_n_9658144b296d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_227: Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly. [\"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for"}, {"id": "card_n_126ec22f0b76", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_055: The hate of favourites is only a love of favour.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not"}, {"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_700f987e94ad", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_350: Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are. [\"I could pardon all his (Louis XI.'s) deceit, but I cannot forgive his supposing me "}]}