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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

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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.

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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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.

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Where ambition ends happiness begins.

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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