Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Ambition never comes to an end.
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