Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness...

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness...

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil...

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to...

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to...

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or...

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or...

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his...

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his...

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember...

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember...

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to...

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to...

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look...

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look...

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive...

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive...