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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.»
«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»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
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