La Rochefoucauld §laroch_490: We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_490) · external_aligned
We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love. ["Men commence by love, finish by ambition, and do not find a quieter seat while they remain there."--La Bruyere: Du Coeur.]
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: First edition, Paris 1665 — Barbin imprint
- critical_edition: Pleiade edition — Truchet (Gallimard, 1964)
- translation: Tancock translation (Penguin Classics, 1959)
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Maxims
- republication: Internet Archive — multiple editions