Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Ambition aspires to descend.
I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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