Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambi… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. — Lord Chesterfield
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld