"We often pass from love to ambition, but……" — Francois La Rochefoucauld
"We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love."
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Francois La Rochefoucauld
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48 Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
Francois La Rochefoucauld has 48 quotes on this site.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
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A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just…
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail…
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or…
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we…
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence…
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from…
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Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad…
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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