The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.