Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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.
I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.