Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Citations
La Rochefoucauld, François de. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims. Translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, Simpson, Marshall, and Co., 1871, Maxim 490.
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François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was a noted French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs. He is part of the literary movement of classicism and best known for his maxims. Although he only officially published his Memoirs and his Maxims, his literary production is dense.