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Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Where ambition ends happiness begins.: Author Unknown
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
Ambition is not a vice of little people.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.: Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea: Author Unknown
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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