Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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