Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.