Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLove often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThose who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPeople's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld