“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
