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«Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.»
Author: Francesco Petrarch (Humanist, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: ambition, avarice, banished, banishes, banishing, envy, infallibly, inhabit, perpetual
«Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: ambition, reign, reigning, secure
«I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Ambition, Boredom | Keywords: ambition, boredom, exhaustion
«He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Ambition | Keywords: ambition, Burns, obtain, picture, sacrifices, The Ashes
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | About: Ambition, Books | Keywords: ambition, sentenced, sentences, sentencing, ten
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | Keywords: acquire, adept, ambition, get rid of, literary, literature, novice, novices, rid, rid of, struggle, The Novice
«For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.»
Author: Johnny Depp (Actor) | Keywords: ambition, dirtier, dirtiest, dirty, hopes, hunger, hungered, hungering, hungers, hungry, prefer
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: ambition, avarice, cruelty, fluid, fluids, founded, lends, lust, lust after, nervous, revenge, supports
«Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor, General, Politician) | Keywords: Acts, ambition, depends, direct, endowed, endowing, endows, passion, perform, principals, The Passion, well endowed, with ambition
«Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli | Keywords: ambition, attack, rise, secure, securing
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