Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
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