Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldΤο know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld